Do you mean that perhaps (some?) stars are “intelligent” in some way that we’re not aware of? (i.e. some cool computation is taking place within them?)
I mean life in the general sense, as discussed, for example here:
Homeostasis: regulation of the internal environment to maintain a constant state; for example, sweating to reduce temperature
Organization: being structurally composed of one or more cells – the basic units of life
Metabolism: transformation of energy by converting chemicals and energy into cellular components (anabolism) and decomposing organic matter (catabolism). Living things require energy to maintain internal organization (homeostasis) and to produce the other phenomena associated with life.
Growth: maintenance of a higher rate of anabolism than catabolism. A growing organism increases in size in all of its parts, rather than simply accumulating matter.
Adaptation: the ability to change over time in response to the environment. This ability is fundamental to the process of evolution and is determined by the organism’s heredity, diet, and external factors.
Response tostimuli: a response can take many forms, from the contraction of a unicellular organism to external chemicals, to complex reactions involving all the senses of multicellular organisms. A response is often expressed by motion; for example, the leaves of a plant turning toward the sun (phototropism), and chemotaxis.
Reproduction: the ability to produce new individual organisms, either asexually from a single parent organism or sexually from two parent organisms.
If you take a galaxy as a collection of stars, you can easily identify all of those in that system.
But how does this resolve the Fermi paradox? It’s still a mystery that we exist and don’t see intelligent agents pursuing convergent instrumental goals anywhere in the observable universe.
How do you know that we do not see them? Or it. We do not know what those instrumental goals might be for these hypothetical agents. Maybe stars are intelligent black hole maximizers.
Do you mean that perhaps (some?) stars are “intelligent” in some way that we’re not aware of? (i.e. some cool computation is taking place within them?)
I mean life in the general sense, as discussed, for example here:
If you take a galaxy as a collection of stars, you can easily identify all of those in that system.
Nice :)
But how does this resolve the Fermi paradox? It’s still a mystery that we exist and don’t see intelligent agents pursuing convergent instrumental goals anywhere in the observable universe.
How do you know that we do not see them? Or it. We do not know what those instrumental goals might be for these hypothetical agents. Maybe stars are intelligent black hole maximizers.