Do you believe this guy? (I don't, but you decide)

 https://youtu.be/c0KF2Ebqdww

 
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Sensory worlds of animals that can be applied to ET speculation

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A review by Charles Foster in TLS [Times Literary Review] for the August 12^th issue – If we only had eyes to see – was about a new book by Ed Yong: An Im- mense World: How animal senses reveal the hidden realms around us [Bodley Head, $30]
 
Examples from the book offer the discursive and intriguing ways species, here on Earth, Foster writing, “He [Yong] left me vertiginously disconcerted, for any serious attempt to imagine the perspective of a non-human leaves in ruins our cherished, self-referential presumptions about the kind of place the universe is.” [Page 9]
 
The raft of examples, a few here -- …decapitated flies groom themselves if they taste (through their feet) bacteria on their wings; cockroaches eat their own guts; dolphin ultrasound which, if beamed at you would show the blood pumping through your aorta and the food being squeezed towards your rectum; bogong moths, having hatched, fly 600 miles to one of a few caves in the Austra- lian Snowy Mountains – seem freaky, the reviewer writes, but only because “humans wallow in sensory poverty.”
 
In a paragraph about our sensory chauvinism,  reviewer Foster cites this from the book (which I found fascinating because of my fondness for ant societies):
 
“Ants, for example, associate the scent or taste of oleic acid with dead ants … but when E. O. Wilson put oleic acid onto the bodies of living ants, their siblings dragged them off to the cemetery. The smell of death triumphed over the contradictory evidence of wriggling.” [ibid.]
 
Reviewer Foster notes in the last paragraph of his TLS review a 2017 paper by biologist Sonke Johnsen, reflecting on the “invigorating way quantum physicists deal with uncertainty," entitled “We Don’t Really Know Anything, Do We? Open Questions in Sensory Biology.” [ibid.]
 
Foster ends his review with this: “Ed Yong lays bare the thrilling inadequacy of our own epistemologies and makes plain the central truth that the more we know, the deeper the mystery.” [end]
 
What has this to do with UFOs and/or alleged extraterrestrials?
 
Other lives (species) elsewhere in the cosmos, developing via a process (not necessarily an evolution) would surely perceive things differently than we, just as species here perceive things differently, because of sensory adaptation that is as varied as we know (or yet do not know).
 
That is, ETs would not see or smell or feel as we humans do and could barely understand what it is they have stumbled upon. The variegated things they would input would be, likely, even more startling than what is exampled in Ed Yong’s marvelous book.
 
Thus, as I keep writing, the “tales” of alien [ET] contact is pretty much the residue of addled human minds.
 
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Calvine UFO: Part 8 (The Elephant in the Room)

 https://youtu.be/C-ih7YRuyrw

 
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