Yup. I share this line of reasoning and have based on it a worry that we can’t expect to recognize alien life if we encounter it in space. We are only good at recognizing mammals, and then decreasin...
And sometimes I think about why some people think things like ChatGPT are already conscious. My personal untested take is that it probably seems conscious to them because it’s SMARTER than they are. The average overall intelligence level of the data set is probably higher than the population average. 😂