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Communicating with Alien Life Forms
3:25:36 - 3:33:10 (07:34)
To assume that an alien life form is anything like us is equally inconceivable as thinking they are carbon-based, bipedal, humanoid beings that fly around in metal spaceships. Ants are not intelligent, but it is a human thing to observe and communicate with them.
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The idea that an alien life form would be anything like us carbon-based, bipedal, humanoid species that fly around in metal machines and visit alien planets is equally as absurd as trying to communicate with ants from an alien perspective.
3:25:36 - 3:28:43 (03:07)
Summary
The idea that an alien life form would be anything like us carbon-based, bipedal, humanoid species that fly around in metal machines and visit alien planets is equally as absurd as trying to communicate with ants from an alien perspective. It is important to observe and take notes on their physical scale, physics of interaction, and mediums of information exchange.
ChapterCommunicating with Alien Life Forms
Episode#310 – Andrew Bustamante: CIA Spy
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The expectation that an intelligent alien species would want to engage in communication is a highly human assumption, as it may not align with the goals or desires of the extraterrestrial beings.
3:28:43 - 3:33:10 (04:27)
Summary
The expectation that an intelligent alien species would want to engage in communication is a highly human assumption, as it may not align with the goals or desires of the extraterrestrial beings.