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So, what if we do discover life on another planet? And if it turns out to be intelligent, how might we communicate with our cosmic neighbours? Scientists are already beginning to ask what alien language might be like and if our species could ever hope to understand each other.
Arik Kershenbaum, a behavioural ecologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, believes evolutionary challenges are truly universal, and that the evolutionary forces that shape life on Earth will produce many similar features in extraterrestrial life. If he's correct, it would mean life – and language – throughout the cosmos may share certain features.
Even human language, explains Roberts, comprises much more than just speech – we communicate through writing, body movements, drumming, whistles and more. "What's really remarkable about human language is that whatever form it's carried in, it has fundamentally the same properties," he says. "It's interesting to question: we have a good idea what human grammars look like, so what might alien grammars look like?" Intelligent exo-beings, says Roberts, might externalise their language in ways that we can't yet imagine, "through pheromones, magnetic fields – who knows what? But if we could decode that language, we would find it to be very similar to human language."
originally posted by: WeMustCare
Former Director of National Intelligence John Radcliffe said one of the most frustrating and scary things about the UFOs is how they don't respond to communication attempts. He feels either they are unmanned, or don't want to communicate.
originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
a reply to: Lumenari
You make a good point……but we got to start somehow.
Well, perhaps if they are so “advanced” they will either have their form of universal translator gizmo or communicate telepathically of sorts…
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originally posted by: BeTheGoddess2
A lot of contactee accounts say they communicated telepathically, and I was thinking about this in relation th the Flatwoods Monster, and how it was said that their head glowed... Hear me out on this, the pineal it similar to ocular sensors and is not there to receive light, its to emit it for instant communication across vast distances of space, or just across the table.
I dont think we need to go all linguistics on this, but there is this hot as fk chick round the corner from me who has a phd in linguistics if like you want me to hook up with her--ya know for science, I'll try.
We have yet to learn to speak to other species on our own planet... dolphins come to mind.
originally posted by: Mantiss2021
Start with mathematics.