# SETI Assumes Alien Intelligence Resembles Ours by Ian Bogost > "SETI is uniformitarian in its assumption that all alien intelligence would be the same, namely, like human intelligence (but smarter, of course)." > **— Ian Bogost**, *2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?”* ## Sources and Context - **Full authored response and quotation context:** [What If Thinking Machines Are Already All Around Us?](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/26211) — Edge's 2015 annual-question response by Ian Bogost; the linked page contains the complete response and quoted passage. ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Machine Succession|Machine Succession]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/We Were Never Going to Make It|We Were Never Going to Make It]] - **Article:** [[articles/Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession|Christopher Nolan's Odyssey at the Threshold of Machine Succession]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Last Migration Will Not Be Human|The Last Migration Will Not Be Human]] - **Wiki map:** [[wiki/Machine Intelligence Continuum|Machine Intelligence Continuum]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Digital Organism|Digital Organism]] - [[wiki/Co-Creative Substrate|Co-Creative Substrate]] - [[wiki/Intelligence|Intelligence]] - [[wiki/Artificial Intelligence|Artificial Intelligence]] ## Share on Social Media ``` "SETI is uniformitarian in its assumption that all alien intelligence would be the same, namely, like human intelligence (but smarter, of course)." — Ian Bogost, 2015, Edge annual question “What Do You Think About Machines That Think?” https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-ian-bogost-seti-assumes-alien-intelligence-resembles ```