Intelligence creates information. Information cannot exist without intelligence. If this is true, than does information created by a different intelligence produce different information? If information is the product of intelligence and the all we know is human so far, than how do we know that information created by beings other than ourselves would be the same?
In the same way that alien biology is assumed to be different from ours, I propose that their information type may be different as well. I cannot say for sure what an alternative information type would be, as we have only one example, but if this concept were true, it may be the solution to Fermi's Paradox (although I personally believe that the solution is that civilizations that have invented technology advanced enough to travel interstellar distances in short amounts of time will also discover how to travel to alternate dimensions/universes, thus eliminating the need/want to travel through our physical galaxy).
I believe that our first opportunity to test this hypothesis will come when we create artificial intelligences, or mind clones. In a type of experiment, we could presumably upload one's mind to the "computer," simulate the conditions in which the original person also experiences, and observe whether or not the AI produces the same information as the original person.
If, indeed, information is not universal, it poses a very interesting question in what other forms or manifestations can information take? If an alien civilization has advanced to the point of creating super-computers beyond our imagination, they may have figured out a way to control information in a more complex and useful manner than we do. Thus, they effectively have an entirely different form of information than we are currently aware of and we would not be able to detect it, even if it was amongst us.
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