Abstraction is the enemy of truth

If aliens were to exist, to view humans as they are, they would not be able to decipher us as we do. If we were riding a bike it would view and the bike as one, not as an intelligent biped using a transport device. it would see us as a sum of our energy usages, as a bunch of motion vectors and molecules, of waves and inertia. The chemical reactions which now exist from a multitude of reactions before them would be viewed as an obscure chaos, a result of simple variables. The distance from the sun, the composition of the earth, the abundance of electromagnetic waves. The spin and tilt of the seasons, the sum total mass and its exertion on the particular combination of atoms, and the same thing repeated on all scales, the quantum and the mirco, the nano and pico; and the macro. It is these things it would view; it would leave 'intelligence' to fall under its own logic. Abstraction is the enemy of truth.