What will intelligent aliens look like

These senses may even go as far as allowing these aliens to be shape-shifters, beings that have consciousness control of their body to a molecular level. This control would mean instant adaptation to new environments, the possibility to ingest any type of other molecular structure as sustenance. If they had control of these building blocks we could assume that their technology would bridge the artificial with the biological and would be far ahead of our own.

We see something similar on this planet with the gears found in planthoppers' legs. The idea of biology and evolution already using cogs leads one to wonder what else might exist. Maybe something like naturally evolved silicon circuitry? Some speculate that if aliens had or have evolved to have a civilization similar to ours they would have a similar body form.

All of the focus thus far has been purely on the physical characteristics but what would play an equally important part of any alien-human interaction would be the psychological. We as a species find it almost impossible to communicate with intelligent animals here on our planet, heck we have a hard enough time talking to one another sometimes.

What will they be like, will they be solitary, a part of a herd or arrive in small bands? What do think these aliens will look and behave like, do we already know because they have been here all along let me know what you think in the comments below.

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And most intelligent species on earth happen to be on land, instead of the sea. You might say, what about dolphins and killer whales. You have to remember that these animals were once land mammals. They went back to live in the sea. Octopuses are perhaps an exception. They appear to be quite intelligent and live in the sea. According to physics professor Bernard Bates at the University of Puget Sound, Aliens with advanced technology would have to be on land because technology needs fire to kick-start it.

By providing a survival advantage, and a way to create advanced hunting tools. Light from the Sun also does not penetrate as deeply in oceans. There is very little light beyond meters in the ocean. So the energy that ocean creatures have to work with is less than the energy available on land.

This makes it harder for larger complex creatures to evolve. So, prey is harder to catch. This could be a reason that predatory animals on land tend to be more intelligent than animals in the ocean. They have to be in order to eat. And humans are predatory animals. Similarly, we should expect intelligent aliens to have evolved from predator ancestors as well. So if aliens live on land, they would also need some means of locomotion — mammal legs and insect legs evolved separately, but serve largely the same function.

So our aliens would likely have legs of some sort. They could slither like a snake or hop like a kangaroo as well.

It all depends on whatever locomotive method gave them a predatory advantage. Predators on earth mostly appear to have legs for fast running. So the legs would likely be segmented like ours for more efficient running.

Whether it is two or 4 or more is hard to say. Two, like ours, is more efficient, but it is not that stable because one push and humans can fall over.

More than 4 is probably too inefficient. On earth no land animals with endoskeletons or internal bones, have more than 4 legs. There are probably only so many ways an alien can efficiently see, eat, walk, and communicate.

And natural selection on their planet would probably weed out inefficient body plans. How prevalent is intelligent life likely to be in the universe? What does a typical alien look like? But does simple life like bacteria naturally evolve into more complex intelligent life? Well, It is not clear whether intelligence is an evolutionary imperative.

It is possible that the energy required to maintain a large brain is not evolutionarily advantageous vs. But to the degree that intelligence allows a species to survive better during times of hardship, it may be advantageous. If you make the argument that natural selection favors intelligence, then perhaps any planet with even the simplest life progresses towards an intelligent species.

But there could be a balance such that beyond a certain intelligence, there is no survival advantage. So for example the intelligence of wolves may be as intelligent as life needs to be in order to survive hardships.

Our superintelligence which is way beyond any other living thing on earth, and which has to be supported by a huge amount of energy consumption, not only by our brains but also our technology, may be an aberration and not evolutionarily advantageous. So we may be an exception in evolution, or the result of a series of coincidental mutations in our ape genome. But if earth is typical, super intelligence takes a long time to evolve, Life on earth has been around for at least 3.

But Human have only been around for maybe , years. In cosmological terms, we are a newborn baby seconds old. They are likely however to be so far away, that we may never actually encounter them. Seth Shostak, astronomer at the SETI institute believes that our first encounter with aliens will likely not be with carbon-based life, but silicon-based life.

He says that because he believes we our close encounter will not be with biological creatures, but with their highly intelligent machines or probes using silicon chips for processors, that they would have sent out to the far reaches of the galaxy. Should we fear them? Made with by Graphene Themes. Want Your Free. Project Bluebook? Toggle search form. May Share on Facebook Share. Share on Twitter Tweet. Share on Pinterest Share.