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Some humans can play Chess in their minds, yes. But would they have learned to play Chess if it was purely mind stuff? I don't think so. We might one day have
by akkartik 7y ago
Some humans can play Chess in their minds, yes. But would they have learned to play Chess if it was purely mind stuff? I don't think so.
We might one day have octopuses play Chess with us. But there may be other alien games we'd learn from them as well. Or not.
- CydeWeys 7y agoWhy not? We have games that exist entirely verbally that have always been so. It doesn't seem an impossible stretch to have verbal games that involve mentally imagining a physical layout, especially because these are aliens we're talking about here who could easily have much better visualization abilities than us. Maybe it would even be an adaptation brought on by an inability to change their environment as well as we can.