The aliens realize we're not actually conscious. Humans 'think' for 16-18 hours, then need to compact their context window for 6-8 hours where they hallucinate pretty much the whole time, then start over again.
No true continuity of experience, just a series of fruit flies sharing a notebook
Ryan Cavanaugh
Alternate ending to "Contact" where Jodie Foster realizes that the aliens' thought processes are discrete instead of continuous, thus they are not intelligent
Ryan Cavanaugh
"Alas, they’re not thinking in the continuous sense you and I experience; they are merely providing themselves with a discrete sequence of internal prompts."
seen this one before
conputer dipshit
I wonder how much of the argument ultimately turns on the debatable idea that computation is discrete while reality is continuous
