it’s not that it’s not “math” it’s that the process by which we derive and conceptualize math may be alien to other consciousnesses.

we already have similar things like 0.999… = 1, or algebra, or base 10 v base 16 v base 2… is it so hard to conceive a race with different perception organs, a different “brain” that doesn’t look or function like ours, maybe non-carbon-based would operate in a way that is entirely alien?

Consider how from 400 BC to 1800 AD disease was spread by “miasma” and 20,000 years ago it wasn’t spread by “anything” because we didn’t have a framework or concept of the idea of disease transmission. Consider how before we went to space we thought there was “aether” outside the atmosphere, and before that it was “quinessetence” and before that it was a God or a celestial beetle or whatever…

Are we so bold as to claim that our grasp on what numbers are and their relation to the universe won’t change as much in another 2,000 years, or 20,000?

I guess I’m just saying we don’t know that for sure. We don’t even really know if lobsters or mushrooms or trees “experience” time. We know shrimps probably experience colors we can’t conceive of, it’s not that far removes from reality.

we did it without what loosely translates as blarglsnargling and they are equally confused as to how we did it. The downside to our approach being pollution of our air, the downside to their approach being pollution of their planet’s crust. Both of which would be catastrophic if occurred in each other’s ecosystem but is a mild irritant heading towards and eventual catastrophe for each respective society.

I mean this is all a hypothetical, so let me throw some blockers at you:

They don’t distinguish between wave and not-wave, assuming they dont have a Lacanian concept of language and their pre-language concept of what we would call a wave is actually the average distance from the bottom of the ocean in an arbitrary field of qualia whereby they average out “extended” phenomena from an “unextended” experience of the average of the different forms of background radiation.

In which case they couldn’t count a planet rotation and have no concept of counting or rotation but would express it instead as an average speed and direction in relation to the absorbed radiation of different astral and planetary (by which I mean “terrestrial” for lack of a better word when not talking about our planet) bodies? So what is a year to us is a limitless expression of the average rate of change of the comparative rate of radiation from the nearest star and the largest vent in the bottom of their ocean? They express this by making parts of their carapace emit different strengths of radiation in different directions. Would we even know to call those emissions a language?

edit: to make it even harder, maybe there’s a way to experience a qualia of alpha radiation to them that for them is as different as the words “because” and “apple”, but to us is two identical blasts of alpha radiation because we don’t even know how to sense the differences that are there because to us they don’t even exist?

there’d a big difference between experiencing a force and describing it though. Imagine attempting to describe proprioception to a race of spherical beings with no sense of touch.

what if they don’t have the concept of atomic concepts: there’s no such thing as “one” because everything can be divided, until you reach wave/particle duality in which case there’s no singular state anyway? There’s no such thing as “two” because there can be no dividing line between phenomena that have no external nor internal boundaries? What if they cannot see or hear but use other senses we have no names for? What if they are a hive mind and don’t predate and thus have no concept of consent or denial/acceptance, and thus no concept of yes/no?

Je suis anglais. But also I was trying to keep the catchphrase intact.

Ils sont fous, ces Française.

the drive time was to illustrate scale.

While it doesn’t matter how big a whale is vs a microbe, you can’t put a whale under a normal microscope, thus the distinction is relevant.

and that coolant mass’ name?

Auks were similar to penguins, members of the aukling family include guillemots and puffins.

No it isn’t. See my other reply, she was the one who originally broke the story of her masters thesis being rejected because she mentioned her boyfriend, publically on her tiktok profile which shows her face.

I still question the motives behind the original author.

Well I decided to look into it a bit. It seems like the original Faith ran into trouble for dedicating her Masters thesis to her boyfriend.

I cannot find the OP amongst that particular story which was reported on a lot of low-effort quasi-journalistic outlets (think Buzzfeed but less well known).

Might it be the case these are copycat meme creators who are creating these memes to capitalize on a trend/news event and are impersonating the original author for - at best a laugh, at worse for an ulterior motive?

I don’t think it’s “weird” to question these motives. I think its perfectly reasonable to suggest that this anonymous screenshot should be subject to critical thought.

a meme that I personally would have suspicions about it’s origin considering it paints a black academic woman in a bad light.

british detected 🚨🚨🚨

what about something like fairphone? why is pixel better?

as far as we know this is the pedo planet

why is everyone in this thread telling me to imagine something

“make the page transparent and show a spinning icon, wait 750ms, then make the page display normally”

it’s a fake loading screen

if it helps, I installed it today using winget which I liked.