Why do we assume alien beings would be pattern seekers like us?
   The human mind seeks patterns.* We seek commonalities because
   our nervous system is necessarily limited.* So we compress via
   analogy things we consider to be similar. But what of a being
   that was not hampered by the need for compressibility of
   knowledge, as we humans are? A being with memory but had no need
   for pattern seeking for internal compression of what we consider
   similar concepts, might consider all things unique and
   different.* It may not even need to categorize anything.* it
   might have no need to simplify _anything_. We may see two
   apples.* They may not even see a "two" of anything. Kenneth Udut