• moakley@lemmy.world
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      5 days ago

      But they’d have written it in alienese. That’s why I say dolphins - without a formal writing system of their own, they’d naturally default to a human one for the purpose of studying humans.

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      I think it’s for n-dimensional beings trying to understand lower dimensional existence