eli5: if we hear sound by air vibrating into our eardrums and we see things by light interacting with our retinas, does that mean that if other alien civilizations exist that they have to have a extremely similar system to ours in orders to see and hear things the way we do

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eli5: if we hear sound by air vibrating into our eardrums and we see things by light interacting with our retinas, does that mean that if other alien civilizations exist that they have to have a extremely similar system to ours in orders to see and hear things the way we do

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For them to see and hear “the way humans do”, then yes, they would need similar optical and aural methods.

But the odds of that being the case aren’t particularly high, given that even on earth we have animals that see and hear in completely different ways to humans.