> If there is a species that thinks in terms of things that humans never could understand, then I would argue that species isn't part of our physical reality.
What if they think can think in our terms AND they can think thoughts we are physically unable to, thoughts that are literally inconceivable?
If the thoughts have any interaction at all between each other, we would be able to leverage that to understand those higher-level thoughts to the degree that they affect the ones on our level. As an analogy, we can project an N dimensional object onto N! planes and get a complete, but not intuitive, description of what it is.
Maybe they know the exact value of Chaitin's constant, but at least we know its properties.
What if they think can think in our terms AND they can think thoughts we are physically unable to, thoughts that are literally inconceivable?