Yus
I could describe in a painful amount of detail as to how they would be able to, it starts with a representation of our number system, it describes some basic elements using the first transition state of hydrogen as a reference, which they would know about, just to make sure they understand the syntax of the message, it shows the double helix structure of DNA, a picture of the solar system, blah.
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Sat 22 Dec 2007, 15:03,
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I know
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message
but it would still require a kind of mind/sensorics/mathematics/etc similar to ours
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Sat 22 Dec 2007, 15:06,
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but it would still require a kind of mind/sensorics/mathematics/etc similar to ours