senses [and aliens]

Ok we have a limited amount of senses
and for some reason, we’ve gotten the
idea that there is little else in the
world to experience outside of
these senses.  But simply because we
were not built for experiencing
different ways of gaining information
[isn’t that what the senses do?]
doesn’t mean there aren’t more ways
of detection.  For example if humans
could never hear – never in creation.  Would sound exist?  It probably would only we would never know it.  So there could be different
senses that we cannot experience ever or cannot yet because
we have not learned how to.  More about information, life seems
just to be a gathering of information.  That’s what experience
is isn’t it?  What the information is for, I don’t know, but all
our senses sight, taste, hearing, touch, smell are all ways
of recording what is around us.

So if there is other intelligent life around us, let’s just call them
aliens for the purpose of this rant, why should they be detectable
to us?  They could be, but they don’t have to be.  It makes sense
that they don’t have to be.  Isn’t that what makes them alien?
Strange, foreign, unfamiliar?  Why would aliens have to comply with
human standard senses?  Just so that we could witness them?  It
seems to make sense that other life forms would experience life in a different manner to us.

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