I actually think there's a bit of an answer to that, in the No Free Lunch theorem. To "experience" Beethoven's 9th Symphony, you need cognitive biases that it c

I actually think there's a bit of an answer to that, in the No Free Lunch theorem. To "experience" Beethoven's 9th Symphony, you need cognitive biases that it can tickle in the way that Beethoven intended. An alien missing those biases won't "get it", but then they'll get things we won't. But there's no solution to having the right biases for everything. All we can do is throw a lot of things at it and hope for the best, and what's more, that's the best we or any alien in the physical universe could do. (Heck, you don't even need a deaf species. There's a lot of reason to believe that birds don't experience music the way we do, and they're not even strictly speaking "aliens".) So there's no particular gain to worrying about being limited to "human" senses, because there is no actionable way to "transcend" them in that sense other than by being something other than what you are. It's certain to be true, there's nothing to be done about it that we aren't already doing, and thus, it isn't really an interesting criticism to vaguely suggest that we should somehow be something other than ourselves.