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#279 – Alien Debate: Sara Walker and Lee Cronin

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Language is basically because we're objects extended over time. And when we communicate, it's because we actually have shared structure in our causal history. The interesting thing about mathematics now, is that everybody on planet earth, every human being and computers, im sure that common language, that language, was constructed by a process in time. So what i'm trying to say is that assembly invented math. T didn't exist before life. Abstraction was invented by life, right? But that doesn't mean that the universe wasn'tcapae of mathematical things. Wat, what amint? Can you interconvert languages like chinese or french into English? We'll be able to find out

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