This is what's bothering me about all the alien intention speculation.
There's an anecdote that physicist Sean Carroll told on JRE, about a philosophy of physics PhD who was seriously misrepresented in the What the Bleep movie. His name is Dr. David. Albert, and here's his quote:
"There is a deep and perennial and profoundly human impulse to approach the world with a DEMAND, to approach the world with a PRECONDITION, that what has got to turn out to lie at THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE, that what has got to turn out to lie at THE FOUNDATION OF ALL BEING, is some powerful and reassuring and accessible image of OURSELVES. That's the impulse that the What the Bleep films seem to me to flatter and to endorse and (finally) to exploit - and that, more than any of their particular factual inaccuracies - is what bother me me about them. It is precisely the business of resisting that demand, it is precisely the business of approaching the world with open and authentic wonder, and with a sharp, cold eye, and singularly intent upon the truth, that's called science."
All this effort I see here to ascribe intentions to a hypothetically visiting alien culture seems to fall directly along these same lines. The very concept of something being alien is the idea of an unknowable otherness. People here theorizing on intentions like stopping climate change, benevolent transfer of technology, preventing nuclear war, etc., just seems like so much human race ego stroking or self-soothing.
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