Memory Game AliensOnline version Description by Alexis Lopez “When we stretch our minds to imagine what it might be like to be different from ourselves… we carry ourselves with us on that empathetic journey.” “Humans have practiced both cannibalism and ritual child murder in our own complex past.” “Whether the revelation would be easily enfolded into late-modern normalcy.” “The sudden arrival of extraterrestrials as the consummation of a modernity that might otherwise be fated to stagnation and decay.” “The core human experience of consciousness… seems extremely well-adapted to getting from planetary evolution to galactic exploration.” “How could it not subject everything we believe to question?” “I left behind merely human answers to global decadence and contemplated more exotic and transcendent and alien possibilities.” “Everything that rises must converge.” “The potential unfathomability of an alien intelligence.” “When we stretch our minds to imagine what it might be like to be different from ourselves… we carry ourselves with us on that empathetic journey.” “The irreducible gulf is striking precisely because of the other ways in which they do resemble us.” “Everything that rises must converge.” “Maybe the human race isn’t simply waiting for an encounter… in a certain kind of paranormal experience we’ve been living with them all along.” “The core human experience of consciousness… seems extremely well-adapted to getting from planetary evolution to galactic exploration.” “Humans have practiced both cannibalism and ritual child murder in our own complex past.” “How could it not subject everything we believe to question?” “Nothing in all our science fictions have prepared us for how an intelligent non-human civilization or culture would present itself to us.” “What effective proof of alien life without actual first contact might mean.” “Human culture can be jolted by unexpected encounters with a novel culture.” “If some kind of Borg-esque hive consciousness is actually better-suited to making the breakthroughs necessary to navigate the interstellar deep…” “If some kind of Borg-esque hive consciousness is actually better-suited to making the breakthroughs necessary to navigate the interstellar deep…” “Nothing in all our science fictions have prepared us for how an intelligent non-human civilization or culture would present itself to us.” “Most likely, aliens — even intelligent aliens — will be largely incomprehensible to us.” “Real aliens won’t be like that. They won’t be about us.” “The sudden arrival of extraterrestrials as the consummation of a modernity that might otherwise be fated to stagnation and decay.” “Maybe the human race isn’t simply waiting for an encounter… in a certain kind of paranormal experience we’ve been living with them all along.” “Most likely, aliens — even intelligent aliens — will be largely incomprehensible to us.” “Even with something as horrifying as Gowachin cannibalism, a similarity in consciousness would be enough to eventually build a bridge.” “That’s what science fiction is really doing when it conjures up intelligent alien species… it’s about us, not them.” “The differences among intelligent species could still be a difference of degree and not of kind.” “What effective proof of alien life without actual first contact might mean.” “Human culture can be jolted by unexpected encounters with a novel culture.” “Even with something as horrifying as Gowachin cannibalism, a similarity in consciousness would be enough to eventually build a bridge.” “The potential unfathomability of an alien intelligence.” “That’s what science fiction is really doing when it conjures up intelligent alien species… it’s about us, not them.” “The irreducible gulf is striking precisely because of the other ways in which they do resemble us.” “Real aliens won’t be like that. They won’t be about us.” “Whether the revelation would be easily enfolded into late-modern normalcy.” “The differences among intelligent species could still be a difference of degree and not of kind.” “I left behind merely human answers to global decadence and contemplated more exotic and transcendent and alien possibilities.”