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How do you communicate with someone who's
I invent an elaborate language around smells and my farts become my voice as a combination of musk and vibrations where the scent and timbre of my fart mean different things depending on the context.
This is the only way.
Dude read book base on an alien race that used smells as a language. Called Agent to The Stars.
Also insensible to smell
YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE RULES!
I
TOTALLYjust heard Snake the felon on The Simpsons saying this and it made me laughEdit: The goalposts, they are a'movin'
You might enjoy "The Androids Dream" by John Scalzi.
Stab them in morse code.
Umm...I think I've boxed out any capabillity for that, is the logic not airtight (like, check it now, its been updated a few times). You got me worried there's still a hole in my logic 🤔
Pretty sure all the senses/possible inputs have been mitigated
You said insensitive to touch, but pain is separate from touch and smell.
You could also feed them ghost peppers to communicate, use ambient temperature as a signal, or cut onions in front of their eyes in a specific pattern.
Touché, salesman
If we are using ghost peppers to figure out a way to communicate, we can probably save some time and just interpret whatever response they give as "please kill me, you sadistic assholes" and land pretty close
Touch and pain are two different types of sensory input iirc
Telepathically, of course...
I forgot to menyion they have a chromosomal issue that makes their mind—let's say less receptive—to extrasensory perception and boilerplate cognition🤕
Re-presencing.