Communication Is a Good Way to Communicate

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All communication has evolved from sensing, sight, hearing everything. We involve ears to speak and that's one of the reasons why there's no telepathy er. Even if you could think of a physical explanation of how telepathy could work, it wouldn't evolve. It would never evolve because there's no point in incensing brain waves if no one's transmitting any brain waves. So soi it's going to be out there, sure yet no that i'm completely willing to sign up for. Ah, good. Let's move into the completely crazy speculative parts of this question. How do they talk to each other? How do they communicate? Is it going to be like the borg

If extraterrestrial life is out there — not just microbial slime, but big, complex, macroscopic organisms — what will they be like? Movies have trained us to think that they won’t be that different at all; they’ll even drink and play music at the same cafes that humans frequent. A bit of imagination, however, makes us wonder whether they won’t be completely alien — we have zero data about what extraterrestrial biology could be like, so it makes sense to keep an open mind. Arik Kershenbaum argues for a judicious middle ground. He points to constraints from physics and chemistry, as well as the tendency of evolution to converge toward successful designs, as reasons to think that biologically complex aliens won’t be utterly different from us after all.

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Arik Kershenbaum received his Ph.D. in Evolutionary Biology and Ecology from the University of Haifa. He is currently College Lecturer and Director of Studies at Girton College, University of Cambridge. He is the author of The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal About Aliens — and Ourselves.

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