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Once. How different can the experiences be between fruit flies after that first contact, though?

And for that matter, what if your species descended from something similar to a fruit fly and you had the processing power to call those species memories to the front of your own mind?



I suspect one of the more interesting aspects of humanity would be that our "day-world" (the sun) is about the same size as our "night-world" (the moon) from our perspective. Sometimes our night world covers our day world completely.

Sun worship might be common, but the human spin on it might be rare.

Studying the impact on our mythology and philosophy could prove interesting to outsiders. It is possible that our species thinks in an extremely binary way compared to other intelligent beings.

Talking to us about it would likely prove less interesting. Betting quatloos on outcomes might prove an interesting sport though.


I don't think you intended your first remark to sound like this, but I'd imagine the same could be said of us from the perspective of a highly advanced interstellar species: how different can the experiences be between humans, right? However, given the level of complexity of a fruit fly I know this metaphor doesn't necessarily hold when analyzed from the perspective of a human. Yet, who is to say beings beyond our comprehension wouldn't think the same of us?

Unless of course that was your point this entire time and I just stupidly repeated it in a more garrulous manner.


We have society, schooling, media, art, and culture; and every human is unique and individual thanks to thousands of years of these.

Even if we got a fruit fly to speak, it's likely that every other fruit fly will say very similar things as they just have the genetic code but no "culture."

So I think the difference here is caused by society, not by simplicity. Each human carries the combined knowledge of ancestors.


That was exactly my point.




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