the limits of communication in relation to universal taxononomy

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the limits of communication in relation to universal taxononomy

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Being presumptuous here, i would guess you cannot communicate the subtleties of your polygamous relationship to an ant. If we gave you an infinite budget and and infinite staff you could not make it happen. There is a limit to which advanced beings can even potentially communicate their ideas to lower-intellect creatures.

With regard to god, even if one clearly existed, it's clearly impossible to know or do what it wants, or for it to notice us in the first place. Infinity may have no congress with our tiny finite minds.

With regard to the Drake equation, even if intelligent life is all around us, that doesn't indicate they're in a form we'd recognize or that we can communicate either direction.

In fact the distance between levels of potential communication is at least as strong as indication of separation as is the typical biological distinction between species, that they cannot procreate.
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