The following excerpt from the argument en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox that technologically advanced civilizations developed by intelligent life inevitably self-destruct, is perhaps the most telling: This argument does not require the civilization to entirely self-destruct, only to become once again non-technological. In other ways it could persist and even thrive according to evolutionary standards, which postulate producing offspring as the sole goal of life—not progress, be it in terms of technology or even intelligence.[56]
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