Multimodal Logics vs Dichotomies
"One is reminded here of the anthropologist and physician team of Doris Jonas and David Jonas, who suggest in 'Other Senses, Other Worlds' that alien intelligence dependent on sensory modalities unlike those of humans may have radically different ways of experiencing and conceptualising their worlds. Similar ideas have been a staple of science fiction as well. Naomi Mitchison's 'Memoirs of a Spacewoman', for example, suggests that radially symmetrical intelligence, in this case brainy starfish- might possess a multimodal logic to match their morphologies. While bilaterally symmetrical species, such as humans, are more prone to view the world in terms of simple dichotomies"
Vakoch, Edited by D. A., 2014. Archaeology, Anthropology and Interstellar Communication. 1st ed. Washington: NASA.
An anatomical illustration from Sobotta's Human Anatomy 1908 by Dr. Johannes Sobotta.
Kunstformen der Natur (1904), plate 40: Asteridea by Ernst Haeckel