When attempting to contact unknown intelligent life, binary is the logical choice for a common mathematical base because it is the smallest unit of counting.

“and what we presume in my field is since any other number base system would be arbitrary based on you have 12 fingers 10 fingers six fingers if you were going to communicate you would de-arbitrize it and just use base two which is the smallest base you can use where you can meaningfully count”

Humans and other species can bridge communication gaps through the creation of new shared technological interfaces and artificial codes.

“one of the ideas behind the interspecies internet is coming up with new interfaces so that we can communicate with these other species creating artificial codes or devices that allow them a voice is the is the simplest way of saying it and then we can use these shared codes to communicate”