[ecocentrik]

That was a philosophical position on the difficulty of understanding alien concepts and language, not a hard technological limit.

[klank]

I'm missing why that distinction matters given the thread of conversation.

Would you care to expound?

[ecocentrik]

I've always understood this as less of a hard wall and more of a gradient where:

- the % of shared experience/context with a mammal is > than % shared experience with a mollusk

- the gradient starts in communicating with other humans

and that Wittgenstein wasn't wrong in trying to use technology/science to bridge the context gap, he was just early.