“We need a language to speak about aliens, which is not the language of Hollywood,” he tells Inverse. In fact, maybe we should scrap the term “alien” altogether.
Maybe we need a different term — if that’s possible,” he says.
Here’s why Kershenbaum thinks “alien” is no longer fit for purpose: His niche is to employ the same tools zoologists use to decipher animal communication to design algorithms to predict alien languages. If humans can figure out how extraterrestrial life might communicate, then we could decode it faster.
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