Life the Universe and Everything 2

From our observations as a species and the profundity of such a discovery it is likely that the human race would change as a species, perhaps translate into a light-form or bodiless collective that itself would not be discoverable by another emerging species. This could have been happening since the dawn of the universe as we know it. Also, the short time scale between developing civilisation and this form of transcendence would make it unlikely that we would discover another lifeform close enough in physical space to ourselves to discover it though conventional communication channels. Furthermore, such knowledge could physically shift the civilisation from the space-time of our universe forever. This would make it very hard to trace remnants of more advanced civilisations. Failed civilisations would be unlikely to leave detectable signals on the em spectrum.

This idea can be thought of as a program for our universe that has as much relation to virtual computer environments as the DNA helix has in relation to the code that we store on a computer chip. It is not a matter of an order of complexity but rather it is a realisation of a totally different set of instructions that we just happen to be a part of. A similar argument could be used to explain that any animal on earth may have a mind and soul but we lack the tools currently to unlock them.