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Re:Competitive Self-Play by arkades on Wednesday October 11, 2017 @11:16PM (#15455406)
If I've understood you correctly, you're discussing translation. Wilson was discussing the fact that we may simply have wildly different /types/ of thought.
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Re:Competitive Self-Play by stardek on Thursday October 12, 2017 @12:03AM (#15455586)
This idea is explored a bit in the Ender's Game universe [1], it definitely seems pretty compelling that non-human intelligence might be so utterly incompatible with our own thoughts that even beginning to communicate might be entirely impossible.

[1] http://enderverse.wikia.com/wiki/Hierarchy_of_Foreignness

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Re:Competitive Self-Play by arkades on Thursday October 12, 2017 @08:05AM (#15457337)
For a fictional exploration of different experiences with apparently sentient creatures, Peter Watts' "blindsight" is some of the best sci-fi I've ever had the pleasure of reading.
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