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user-inactivated  ·  1881 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What If We Really Are Alone in the Universe?

Here's my alien question, we're presuming they exist as 3D matter on another planet we can observe with the naked eye. It's unscientific to try and guess otherwise, but if a life form that could only experience 2D came across humans it's unlikely they'd be able to formulate anything close to an accurate hypothesis as to what's actually occurring. If the universe actually had more dimensions we'd never know, which is a ridiculous simulation argument but we do have examples of other life forms that lack the perceptual abilities we do.