
What could aliens teach us about the Universe?
Daniel and Kelly’s Extraordinary Universe
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How to Find Intelligible Theories of the Universe
Newton's great discovery was to show that there are no machines. Everything has what we're considered to be ghostly properties. Scientists gave up the hope of finding an intelligible universe. All they wanted was intelligible theories of the universe. And i think it's the same problem if we deal with an alien. Might be that they have a form of intelligence that is inaccessible to us find. If so, we'll try to discover explanatory theories which account for their form of intelligence and as a super theory that'll show what kinds of intelligence there might be. It's such a far off dream that you can barely speculate about it. But i think that's the way we the only way
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