Re:Why extraterrestrial life may not seem alien
by state_less on Monday August 02, 2021 @08:29PM
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And all these animal/alien minds swim through time like a fish swims through water. Reminds me of that David Foster Wallace joke.
> There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?”
> There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys. How’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What the hell is water?”
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/this-is-water