Things may think very differently, but we only have to really worry about them if they think correctly, or close to it. (at our best, we think close to correctly.)
We can reason that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. This also happens to fit our intuitions, which have nothing to do with our logic. Another mind could have other intuitions that also approximate the right answer. But if all the rituals of thought they have make them treat some curve as the shortest path, then we would beat them in a race.
If anything doesn’t think perfectly rationally, then it has some cognitive hole which we might exploit. IF we can understand it, and avoid our own errors.
Things may think very differently, but we only have to really worry about them if they think correctly, or close to it. (at our best, we think close to correctly.)
We can reason that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. This also happens to fit our intuitions, which have nothing to do with our logic. Another mind could have other intuitions that also approximate the right answer. But if all the rituals of thought they have make them treat some curve as the shortest path, then we would beat them in a race.
If anything doesn’t think perfectly rationally, then it has some cognitive hole which we might exploit. IF we can understand it, and avoid our own errors.