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  • I don’t know enough about the stuff to form a strong argument but I feel if they live on our plane of existence, they experience time. And if they’re intelligent enough to communicate with us, they could perceive the passing of it. Counting events of some kind would just come naturally


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    13 hours ago

    I feel like any civilization advanced enough is going to have no problem with that.

    A body of water is connected but you can count the waves. They’d surely count repetition, too, such as their planet rotating and and orbiting it’s starting. Or sound - “click” one “click click” two.

    And if they’re as intelligent as humans, both species are able to learn new abstract concepts