For anyone interested in topics like these, I recommend checking out Issac Arthur's "Cryptic Aliens" video, where he talks in depth about the assumptions that w

For anyone interested in topics like these, I recommend checking out Issac Arthur's "Cryptic Aliens" video, where he talks in depth about the assumptions that we can make about some of the forms of aliens just from natural laws, and about how much the aliens could understand of our language just from statistical analysis and a rough 1950s knowledge of science. It's very interesting and it blew me a way a little.