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Assuming a species is intelligent enough to discover math, if they have some significantly different way of experiencing the world I think they would take a different path but would eventually reach the same destination we are heading towards, likely merging with us by the point we are at now.

I could see the layman understanding of geometry being quite different than ours, limited by their own visual system. But their mathematicians and our mathematicians would discover the same math, through different paths and perhaps with different strengths and weaknesses and a different path of educating budding mathematicians from the grade school level to the post doc level.



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