Much time has been devoted to the question of extra-terrestrial life. Are there intelligent aliens out there that we can communicate with? There have been various initiatives launched to try to establish this, with probably the best known being SETI, which includes the analysis of astronomical data for signs of intelligent life.

But it makes me wonder - how would they recognise that a particular pattern was a sign of intelligent life? I don't think that it's enough to say that there...

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I'm sure you have heard these kinds of phrases before - phrases that purport to have the complexity of the human existence boiled down to a few sentences. It's not really surprising that this happens - after all, it is the desire and ability to impose order and predictability on chaos that has made...