We’re told we
can’t presume a single
aspect about whom
we meet when
we encounter
the inevitable Sentient
Others who exist
in solar systems
either nearer
to or farther from ourselves
than we’ve
now basis to discern.
However, if
the Universe is infinite,
it’s not a possibility
but an imperative
that all imaginable
beings somewhere
manifest and
breathe and learn – and some
of these will
be like us. Perhaps our
android form is
mandated by physics
in reaction
to phenomena of chemicals
and
temperatures and gravity which have
a kinship to
Earth’s own. Perhaps,
wherever they
occur, our sorts of birth,
intelligence and
evolution share a primal
template from
the workings-out of which
we can expect
to find, in some availing
clime, societies
of creatures to whose
symmetries
and features we incline.
But when we look
into
their similarly
fashioned eyes,
will we see anything we recognize?
.
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