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> Is that talking to ants, or is that running experiments on them?

Do you think we wouldn't be trying to actually communicate with ants if we found a viable way of doing so?

I don't think we'd set up an embassy with the ants and sign trade agreements with them...

If that's absurd it's only because ant's cant talk, or comprehend trade agreements, which people can.

And whatever a cosmic civilization would want us to comprehend, we likely could not, in a similar fashion.

What are you basing that likelihood on?