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This is more towards the realm of science fiction but still I believe it would be interesting to address scientifically. If this should be put in science fiction thread then you can move it.
It is obvious in the natural world is that everything is either a food source and/or a consumer in this world. It begins at light, plants convert photons into chemical energy to sustain their existence. The plants themselves store energy and readily use, all the while they are consumed by more complex organisms, insects, mammalian herbivores to sustain their higher energy consumption needs. Then those creatures store even more energy more efficiently as to provide a suitable food source for even more complicated or higher energy consuming being i.e. predators with bigger brains and higher metabolisms. There is an obvious pattern that emerges, the more efficiently you store energy the more you attract a potential consumer.
For a great deal of these creatures that are "food" for a more complex being they virtually unaware of this fact. Humans consume vast amounts of chickens, cows, pigs, and whatever else is on this planet that he/she wishes. On the surface a chicken does not have the brain capacity to look at a human and think this creature is breeding us and slaughtering us for food. The chicken may have an innate fear or even repulsion of the presence of large animal stalking about but no where in his existence does he conceive of the millions of his species being consumed daily by man. Much the same way a plant is unaware of cows tearing into them for countless acres across farms.
My point is this, why should we assume that we are not being culled in the same way by a much more, not necessarily smarter, complicated beings that have an advantage over us and somehow feed off of us while evading our observation. A perfect consumer/predator would never let its prey even be aware of its presence and would be master manipulators.
This sounds a bit paranoid but I genuinely believe this is a perfectly logical and scientific question to consider.
It is obvious in the natural world is that everything is either a food source and/or a consumer in this world. It begins at light, plants convert photons into chemical energy to sustain their existence. The plants themselves store energy and readily use, all the while they are consumed by more complex organisms, insects, mammalian herbivores to sustain their higher energy consumption needs. Then those creatures store even more energy more efficiently as to provide a suitable food source for even more complicated or higher energy consuming being i.e. predators with bigger brains and higher metabolisms. There is an obvious pattern that emerges, the more efficiently you store energy the more you attract a potential consumer.
For a great deal of these creatures that are "food" for a more complex being they virtually unaware of this fact. Humans consume vast amounts of chickens, cows, pigs, and whatever else is on this planet that he/she wishes. On the surface a chicken does not have the brain capacity to look at a human and think this creature is breeding us and slaughtering us for food. The chicken may have an innate fear or even repulsion of the presence of large animal stalking about but no where in his existence does he conceive of the millions of his species being consumed daily by man. Much the same way a plant is unaware of cows tearing into them for countless acres across farms.
My point is this, why should we assume that we are not being culled in the same way by a much more, not necessarily smarter, complicated beings that have an advantage over us and somehow feed off of us while evading our observation. A perfect consumer/predator would never let its prey even be aware of its presence and would be master manipulators.
This sounds a bit paranoid but I genuinely believe this is a perfectly logical and scientific question to consider.
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