The One Notebook Principle

Seriously, this is very very short. I found it while going through old Google Drive folders. It is originally from December 23, 2023. I thought it was interesting enough to post even if it is short.

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The problem with writing anything that isn’t human, especially creatures we’ve never met, especially creatures who may seem human but most definitively are not, is that they’re not human.  We have no idea how their minds work, what their priorities are, how they feel or show emotions, or why they do whatever it is they do.  We can guess, we can imagine, but if we were capable of truly understanding these then they would be only different, not truly inhuman.  Some species may be closer to human, to be more understandable, than others but ultimately they must work differently to be truly different.  So how do we write what we cannot understand?  How do we imagine what our own minds cannot comprehend?