I think we will find successors to aliens and not aliens.

Lets think this step by step. I think the universe is too complex to understand and ever traverse but at the same time to interesting to ignore for almost all alien (and our) civilisation. I think AGI is the answer we and almost all biological beings have to the universe. I also believe that we will be sending AGI to Planets that arent really habital, but have a high chance containing ressources so that AGI can reproduce more AGI probes or whatever and send out more. In the best case we under...