We are as alien to aliens as aliens are alien to us
It was a thought I had one night while observing the stars. We tend to imagine aliens as strange versions of us, but we assume they would still recognize us as intelligent, conscious, or worth communicating with.
If they do exist, isn't it more likely that we would be equally incomprehensible to them? Our ideas of language, morality, and intelligence are entirely human. To them, we might be as alien and unrecognizable as we imagine them to be to us
Posted Sep 14, 2026, 8:00 PM UTC
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