Musk compared consciousness to a candle in a “vast darkness" during remarks about aliens at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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ADVANCED alien civilisations might be talking to each other across the vast reaches of space using a “firefly” technique.

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About 500 million years ago, not a single creature had a skull. Over time, these bony plates evolved into the structural marvels that vertebrates—animals with spinal cords, aka you, me, and your pug, ...