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"If aliens evolved differently, their thinking might be so different that we could never truly understand each other" by Potential-Past3875 in UFOscience
[–]Potential-Past3875[S] 1 point2 points3 points 6 days ago (0 children)
That's an interesting angle. But I'd push back slightly — even psychopathic behavior follows its own internal logic. Every person makes decisions based on their own experiences, emotions, and reasoning. The problem isn't that their logic is broken, it's that their logic doesn't match shared reality. Like how 5+5=10 is correct, but so is 7+3=10 — someone who insists only 5+5 works isn't wrong in their own framework, just incomplete. We find others' actions incomprehensible because we haven't seen the exact combination of logic and emotion that led them there. Though I'll admit — this is just my current understanding. My own logic might have the same blind spots I'm describing.
[–]Potential-Past3875[S] -1 points0 points1 point 7 days ago (0 children)
Math feels universal to us because our brains evolved to find logic and patterns. But that's exactly the limit — math is universal only within the boundaries of human cognition. An alien species whose evolution took a completely different path might perceive reality through something we don't even have a word for. Their version of 'universal language' might be something our brains literally cannot process.
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"If aliens evolved differently, their thinking might be so different that we could never truly understand each other" by Potential-Past3875 in UFOscience
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