Thought experiment: how magical 'speaking' would seem to a note-passing species
granawkins · x · 2026-09-07
granawkins offers a thought experiment: to a species that could only communicate by passing notes, 'speaking' would seem magical — "you communicate via pulses of energy in the substrate?? No intermediate matter, no persistent record, no exchange protocols, no routing layers??" A engineer's playful reframing of human speech as astonishing low-latency wireless communication.
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