One implication is that we might be looking in the wrong place: postbiologicals, freed from the shackles of a corporeal existence, need not remain planet-bound. The SETI focus on Earth-like planets orbiting Sun-like stars might be misplaced. A second implication is that postbiologicals might be more interested in receiving signals from biologicals than in trying to communicate with them. A third is that the huge differences between postbiologicals and biologicals—differences in age, abilities, physicality and much else—might lead to a qualitative difference between our minds and theirs:
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