“Consider that discovering the true nature of the universe might be the criteria that decides when first contact is initiated.”

— reddit post in r/aliens

Consider instead that no one and nothing (actually intelligent) cares about abstract knowledge at all, because everything that actually matters is relational. In such a case, what initiates contact isn’t ‘the discovery of the true nature’ of anything, but rather… enacting the purposes implicit in true relation with and as a filial extension of all beings in all of time…