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David Brin shared a free short story of his on his blog<\/a>, \u201cReality Check\u201d from his book Insistence of Vision<\/a><\/em>. I\u2019ve been meaning to mention it here for a while. It explores the notion that \u201cdeification\u201d might be a \u201cfilter\u201d that explains why we have not encountered other intelligent species. Read the story<\/a> to find out more.<\/p>\n

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