Daniel Whiteson

that we imagine shouldn't ever be open or we don't even realize are there because of the way we're thinking.

And I suspect in that scenario that human minds are very, very diverse.

Aliens show up, they have another way of thinking.

It's very confusing at first, but then some parts of us, some few, maybe neurodiverse elements of humanity are like, actually, that makes more sense to me.

I never really got what you guys were talking about.

Human math never really clicked.

This alien math is my stuff.

And then they're off to the races with alien math and thinking about the universe.

That would be so much fun.

Absolutely, I think that the way that we think and experience the universe must somehow limit the kind of ideas we consider, the way we express them, and also the answers that we will accept, the way that we are satisfied.

When you give somebody an explanation, you wait until that moment when it clicks in their mind.

They're like, okay, I got it.

I have a thing in my head now which satisfies my constraints.

And that's personal, right?

What it takes to make that click for everybody depends on how their minds work.

And so if aliens have different kinds of minds, they might find our answers just unsatisfactory and vice versa.

Say they show up and we're like, what is quantum gravity?

And they tell us and we're like, that doesn't really make sense to me.

What are you talking about?

Why do I still have questions?