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Could aliens teach us science?

Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe

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The Divergence of Philosophical Intuitions in Science

There is some good reason to think that something similar might be the case with science as well, right? We inevitably find the same description of the universe because it is one way. So if there's some evidence to suggest that these kind of broad philosophical intuitions on big questions are quite divergent between different people and different cultures, then I don't see why that wouldn't maybe lead us to think that plausibly different ways of doing science might vary quite radically across people in different cultures too. That's what we'll have a scientific anthropologist on to talk about how indigenous cultures do science or could be different for aliens.

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