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That was a philosophical position on the difficulty of understanding alien concepts and language, not a hard technological limit.
by ecocentrik 1y ago
That was a philosophical position on the difficulty of understanding alien concepts and language, not a hard technological limit.
- klank 1y agoI'm missing why that distinction matters given the thread of conversation. Would you care to expound?
- ecocentrik 1y agoI've always understood this as less of a hard wall and more of a gradient where: - the % of shared experience/context with a mammal is > than % shared experience with a mollusk - the gradient starts in communicating with other humans and that Wittgenstein wasn't wrong in trying to use technology/science to bridge the context gap, he was just early.