The Importance of Mathematics

I like the fact that they're basically equivalent in many ways. We just assume aliens to be omniscient and to know everything we do. There's no way that a alien species could decide that one plus one isn't to, because it's inconsistent with reality. And whilst they might have a different way of displaying these things and understanding it, the fundamentals of mathematics are so fundamental that there's no way around them. I watch a lot of pure maths for fun. Like the soothing smart people juggling numbers and making connections and things. They may have picked things that we feel appropriate to us right? In sense, you know, water freezes at zero or a hundred - but we also got