Specifically, since parents don’t invest in their offspring they don’t tell them what they’ve learned. Thus no matter how smart individuals are, knowledge doesn’t pass to the next generation.
Maybe the alien species has some other form of sharing information. For example the parents may share the knowledge with anyone, and later someone else will tell their children.
I am not suggesting a specific mechanism here, rather objecting against the generalization that alien species will have no way to pass knowledge to the next generation unless they do it like we do. There can be other ways.
Maybe the alien species has some other form of sharing information. For example the parents may share the knowledge with anyone, and later someone else will tell their children.
Why would they? That would increase the evolutionary fitness of their competitors.
They could trade the information.
I am not suggesting a specific mechanism here, rather objecting against the generalization that alien species will have no way to pass knowledge to the next generation unless they do it like we do. There can be other ways.