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Re:Is the Schrödinger Equation True? by eyelidlessness on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:23PM (#25739540)
There are very credible linguists who theorize that there’s a universal human grammar and language foundation. It’s not a stretch to think that if they’re right about humans, the theory may apply to other life with language which we haven’t encountered yet.

If that’s the case, the property you’re describing belongs to abstract thought and language generally, of which mathematics is a subset.

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Re:Is the Schrödinger Equation True? by gizmo686 on Monday January 11, 2021 @06:32PM (#25739704)
The idea of universal grammar is that it is the portion of human language that is hardcoded into the genetics of humans. We would not expect other species to have the same universal grammar that humans do.
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Re:Is the Schrödinger Equation True? by eyelidlessness on Monday January 11, 2021 @07:14PM (#25740338)
The notion is that there’s a commonality, the presupposition is that it’s genetic. But without knowing the mechanics of those genetics I don’t think you could say one way or another whether the expectation would be limited to humans.
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