When aliens finally make contact with us will they think like men, women, computers or something altogether different?
Men and women think very differently. I have always presumed that there is an objective truth out there somewhere, so I get to thinking whether rational aliens will get along better with men or women? Or will they just want to keep well way from all of us? Can you imagine an alien? An intelligent being who was not sexually attracted to either men or women. A being that did not assume that a hairy head and less hairy body were attractive. A being that might be even more curious than I am about what human flesh tastes like, and can you eat the skin if it is roasted right? Or perhaps an alien might be so disgusted by our habits, smell or appearance that they would not want to make contact. Maybe aliens are even more sexually screwed up than we are. Perhaps they spend 50% of their waking hours having sexual fantasies. Or even 50% of their time having sex, it is quite possible from an evolutionary perspective, lions and bonobos are at it all the time. Perhaps they have a different number of
