Daniel Whiteson

We're only 5% there.

Yeah.

I think that's a possibility.

Um, I don't know.

I'm not an expert in neuroscience and you know, I think when we're talking about aliens, we should imagine all sorts of crazy possibilities for how they could process and store information.

And you could definitely do a lot of information processing a lot smaller than we do it.

Um, especially if you're not using organic neurons.

Um,

So yeah, and I'm not an expert in brains at all, but it seems to me like aliens could very likely have a different set of senses, a different kind of experience of the world.

Our experience of the universe is not the only way to experience it.

Another possibility is like, what if aliens are made of dark matter?

Yeah, I was just gonna ask you, what if they can see dark matter just with a sense that we don't understand, and maybe the sky is full of stuff that they can just see.

Yeah, absolutely, because it could be that aliens, if they're made of our kind of matter,

You know, we hypothesize that dark matter might have a new kind of force that lets it interact with our kind of matter.

We hope that it has that force.

We have no evidence for it.

We hope because that would let us discover it.

If there is some sort of like interaction between dark matter and normal matter, not the weak force, not the strong force, not gravity, not electromagnetism, some new force.

Doesn't it have to interact with our stuff because otherwise everything would fly apart, no?

It has to interact with our stuff via gravity.