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by mosqutopi 3378 days ago
Perhaps we should first try to understand dolphin's language. Another suggestion for aliens to understand our language would be first to show then how evolution in earth has happened. Any high technology creature able to travel across the universe must have been studying some kind of evolutionary path. Perhaps studying the neurons they could infer a lot of information about how our mind interacts with the environment.

Edited: An interesting novel is The Black Cloud by Hoyle in which the author tries to establish a language between human and an intelligent extraterrestrial electromagnetic cloud.
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js2 3377 days ago
> Perhaps we should first try to understand dolphin's language

Probably the most famous attempt to do so:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Howe_Lovatt

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breatheoften 3377 days ago
I think evolution is pretty insightful -- given that these creatures are capable of engineering a space in which humans can survive they clearly have knowledge of evolutionary biology which must intersect our own knowledge. That seems a space with more identifiably shareable concepts than math.
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gliese1337 3376 days ago 

     Any high technology creature able to travel across the universe must have been studying some kind of evolutionary path.
Why? What bearing does the study of biological evolution have on the physics and engineering of space travel?
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