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Our definition of "intelligence" is overfit for humanity. There's no reason why an alien civilization have any interest in linear sequences. The way I see it,
by mFixman 6y ago
Our definition of "intelligence" is overfit for humanity. There's no reason why an alien civilization have any interest in linear sequences.
The way I see it, any communication system that doesn't make it possible to communicate with starfish won't make it possible to communicate with aliens either.
- Koshkin 6y agoWell, radio communication is serial (and even television signal is encoded as a linear sequence). Looks like serial protocols are the most natural, simple, and reliable of all. And do not forget about the natural numbers!
- giantrobot 6y agoLots of natural phenomena are "serial" just due to entropy. Radioactive decay, friction, even pulsars are going to tell intelligent species that things happen sequentially in the time domain.