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«The Final Appeal to Mankind» by Nicolai Levashov

characteristic of your way of thinking, but any similarity with the way of thinking
typical of the majority of intelligent races, which are members of the Coalition, ends

right there. This fact compels many members of the CGO to doubt the correctness of
regarding you as an intelligent race.

You analyze problems by thinking in terms of binary processes or alternatives, like an
absolute “yes” or an absolute “no”, which you accept as real. This is an irrational
process of thought used only by those with severely distorted structures. It compounds
itself in the multistage analysis of complicated problems. At the same time the number

of levels in your analysis is usually very small, even if the problem you are analyzing
is quite complicated. The search for a solution comes down to choosing one out of two
possibilities where two possible solutions exist, whereas the most correct solution lies
somewhere in between.

The following analogy will be clear to your mathematicians: If one obtains answers to
“yes” or “no” kinds of questions concerning a particular problem, the solution will be

analogous to choosing one of the apices of an N-dimensional cube, whereas the range
of possible solutions includes all points of N-dimensional space. To be exact, most of
the time you erroneously err in the estimation of the real range of possible solutions
which in reality are seldom quantitative.

As best as we can ascertain, in your scientific and juridical law, the meaning of each
discovery or invention, the essence of any important idea, can be expressed by a simple

sentence, consisting of a hundred words out of a 50,000 word vocabulary, including
mathematical and other specific symbols. The total quantity of possible sentences of
that vocabulary is represented by a very modest figure, 100. If we consider only those
sentences that have an analytic function, that is to convey meaning — the number will
be reduced to 50. Now, if we also eliminate those sentences that are grammatically
correct but lack even the slightest discernible meaning, the quantity of meaningful

sentences remaining will be reduced to 25. Finally, if we then select the false statements
from true ones, being generous with the former in our evaluation, we have only 3-10
statements remaining that actually correspond to reality. Meanwhile, we know some
examples of life forms from several other planets that are capable of showing at least
the same number of various unconditioned reactions to different combinations of
external stimuli that are quite consonant with reality; however these life forms cannot

be called intelligent. There are such species on your planet too. Evidently, it would be
more correct to consider humanity not intelligent, but a potentially intelligent race,
because the limitations of your thought processes, as you should have already gathered,
are not of congenital origin.

The human brain at birth is as impeccable a mechanism for thinking as are the organs

of thought of many intelligent races in the universe. The problem is that the
development of your thinking process from the very beginning took an absolutely

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