Do You Think You're Clever?
Do You Think You're Clever?
“How would you describe a human to a person from Mars?(Medicine, Cambridge)Since the general consensus is that no one has encountered a person from Mars outside the realms of fiction – though of course followers of UFOs would demur – it’s probably reasonable to assume that the question is intended as a hypothetical one. Of course, if I were talking to a ‘real’ Martian, I’d be trying to find points of reference in my description that the Martian would understand. If the Martian were rather human-like, this would be pretty simple. If the Martian were basically a living rock and had never encountered any other life-form than rocks, this might be a little harder. And, of course, without a common language, my task would be even harder! In fact, until the nature of this hypothetical Martian is known, the range of possibilities and difficulties is infinite and the question pointless.I could go off on a flight of fancy, imagining my own kind of Martian and my own way of describing humans to th...is ill-informed alien, but my suspicion is that the questioner is trying to elucidate a description of humans rather than imagine our Martian friend.MoreLess
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