The Increments of Knowing
The creatures did not communicate in yes or no. They communicated in degrees—degrees of brightness, degrees of pulse frequency, degrees of response to the beam's intensity. Oliver Hartley had spent years trying to decode their signals into discrete messages, the way a cryptographer decodes an enemy cipher. He had failed because he was asking the wrong question. The creatures were not encoding...
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