In my vague understanding, you can consider objects like electrons as either particles or as amplitudes in a field. Although these two (currently known) ways of

In my vague understanding, you can consider objects like electrons as either particles or as amplitudes in a field. Although these two (currently known) ways of viewing it lead for the most part to similar intuitions, these paradigms can be somewhat misleading. For example, the fact that we viewed elementary particles as particles, analogous to macro physical objects, for so long meant it was hard to get a grip on wave-particle duality of light and quantum teleportation. In normal life, small particle-like objects don't tend to pop in and out of existence or move around spontaneously. But in many ways, electrons do in fact behave as discrete particles. Physical realists, like most of us on the board probably, don't dispute there is a single physical reality (possible multiverses aside). However there are multiple theories and models that can describe the same reality. These models tend to have different strengths and weaknesses. So we do not know how many possible ways of looking at these things there are, and to what extent aliens might see them similarly or differently.