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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its possible, but you have to know that there are spectra of these things we can’t even sense, like ultrasonic, infrared, microwave, that some animals are proved to be capable of sensing.