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The Great Filter Theory

Authors: Clark M. Thomas

The Great Filter Theory has little to do with anywall or physical filter. It is a "probability filter" for life forms on any habitable planet. Intelligent lives capable of communicating across nearby portions of the Milky Way will face the existential challenge of passing through their own filter. If failure to pass is common, it would provide one likely solution to the Fermi Paradox. What future is increasingly probable for highly intelligent human beings on our blue planet as we push ourselves toward the test?

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