Incomprehensible Aliens

"It was a dark and stormy night" is not just the opening line of A Wrinkle In Time, but also of many other things: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_was_a_dark_and_stormy_night

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[violetichigo1999]

(CONTINUED) in regards towards alien lifeforms. So, Aly is right.

In a truce, you two have created points that flush one another out. Sam needs true and real comprehension to prove his theory and that true and real comprehension can only be achieved with the evolution in your theory. I guess that is how boyfriends and girlfriends work.

Nevertheless, this is a far more fascinating ongoing arguement than one about who ate the last zebra cake or who broke the toaster.

[alyiswriting]

@violetichigo1999 This is perhaps my favorite comment I've ever gotten on a youtube video. I agree with everything you've said. It really is an argument that can't be resolved - both sides seem to be wrong in ways and right in others - and we have no way of testing our theories. That's why we've been arguing for two years about it! But you're definitely right, it's a much more interesting debate than other things we could be fighting about instead!

[ZeavoTown]

I sort of figure aliens could be just invisible to our senses.  Well, maybe we'd sense 'something', but not understand what it was. maybe that's what people we call 'crazy' do.

[alyiswriting]

@ZeavoTown I think it's definitely possible!

[DavidVlogs]

Haha, I think it's great that you bested Sam with the book's first line.

I think, as human beings, creators, inventors, investigators, and philosophers, we will always TRY to understand things. Usually, that means breaking down ideas into something more simple, and then referencing those ideas by use of simple terms or categories. Perhaps there will be some things we don't understand, but I do believe we'll find a way to, at least, address them and their existence in the day to day.

[alyiswriting]

@DavidVlogs Very well put. :)

[violetichigo1999]

relate other things to that comprehension is really too difficult for the human mind. We own too many defense mechanisms, so Sam is right.

Evolution is still occuring, however. I recently watched a movie where a character was talking about how our cells regenerate every seven years. That means that every seven years, we turn into entirely new people. Someday of seven years, if you and I are lucky, we could regenerate into people with the capability of comprehension (TO BE CONTINUED)

[violetichigo1999]

(CONTINUED) indeed immediately relate it to a living or inanimate object on Earth to cope with the situation. By producing familiarity, she can take a step towards. The alien becomes comprehensible to her because she has based her comprehension on a reference.

This, however, lacks true and real comprehension because, just like the imaginary friends films, if you take away the reference then the comprehension deflates. The trouble here is that there are so many things to (TO BE CONTINUED)

[violetichigo1999]

(CONTINUED) deflate upon removing the reference. She probably will never bother watching the film because it is, after all, "just like Don't Look Under the Bed."

Would you believe that a subway conversation is just like incomprehensible aliens?

I once explained in an essay that human beings feel the urge to stereotype because it makes things safer. Perhaps the same defense mechanism applies to incomprehensible aliens. If a human comes face-to-??? with an alien, she would (TO BE CONTINUED)

[violetichigo1999]

(CONTINUED) with references.

"Have you seen Drop Dead Fred?"

"No, what is it?"

"It's just like Don't Look Under the Bed."

The conversation ends here because both conversing human beings feel fullfilled in their comprehension with a reference. The second character's comprehension of the film Drop Dead Fred is solely based on thinking it is just like the Disney Channel movie Don't Look Under the Bed. Thusly, she carrys about a "comprehension" of Drop Dead Fred that will (TO BE CONTINUED)

[violetichigo1999]

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I have now completed posting pure nonsense. Now, somewhere in this universe someone will comprehend it as art. They could live in Paris, Texas and have an individual eye un-plagued with realism. He or she would compare it to the obscure word-artform perpetrated in secret by Italo Calvino and the Oulipo Group. This is the unnoticable trap of comprehension: human beings must relate one thing to another. This world is plauged (TO BE CONTINUED)

[violetichigo1999]

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