(May 11, 2019 at 5:25 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Besides an anthropocentric projection of our primitive social needs deriving from our particular precivilization social evolution, what reason can you think of why a technological civilization might feel the need to communicate with those who could only understand very dumbed down communication by the standards of the technological civilization?
Because there's a better chance of being understood. The more advanced the information, the fewer receiving civilizations are likely to understand it. Suppose the situation were reversed and we were the ones attempting to communicate. Might it not be more effective to transmit what are universal messages (it's tough to imagine an advanced civilization that hasn't stumbled across the relationship between the diameter and circumference of a circle) than to transmit esoteric or high-end information that is known only to a few?
Boru
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