Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: The concepts of intelligent life beyond earth and extraterrestrial civilizations have intrigued scientists and scholars alike. Intellectuals have suggested that extraterrestrial intelligence should be detectable somewhere in the grand universe; however, despite continued effort, no one has reliably documented evidence supporting extraterrestrial life, culminating in the Fermi Paradox. One perspective to solve the Fermi Paradox involves using logic and analytical reasoning skills to deduce the limits of detection based on what is most probabilistically determinable via the Drake equation. However, with information comes costs and these emergent energetic complexities drive civilizations to maximize computing power, converging into a blackhole transcendent state for maximal computing efficiency. Yet, self-destruction and genetic stagnation might prevent civilizations from achieving the most optimal state for maximizing physical variables (space, time, energy, and matter), resulting in the inevitable collapse via the great filter. Consequently, all these emergent factors have cumulated into the everlasting paradox; if extraterrestrial intelligence is a probabilistic occurrence, then why haven’t we observed any? The missing link is the interactions of life with their environment and how these complex interactions drive the product of their existence.
Author: Kramer, Matthew A
Institution: University of North Florida
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225840656