What do we take for civilizon? We often are so humanicentric. Shouldn't we count ants and termites as civilization? I saw there is a reference about a book on a

What do we take for civilizon? We often are so humanicentric. Shouldn't we count ants and termites as civilization? I saw there is a reference about a book on ants in this thread. The same is true for advanced galactic civilization: we are so ignorant of it, of what life is and what should or not qualify as living being. What is intelligence and wisdom? Recognition of plant communication is so recent, what lesson do you take out of it? How many dimensions actually encompasses us and how do they interact? Take the Fermi paradoxes. Let's say your are some kind of very advanced civilization so advanced you know how to deal with all your civilization need to ensure perpetual sustainable forcastable needs of your civilisation. Let's say you manage to do that in a parcimonic way, avoiding to reveal your existence to other potentially hostile exogenous civilisations. Let's say that you are on top of that able and willing to explore other civilisations. At least in a first time in a way most likely undetectable. So your exploration project lead you to earth in a way like the hologram guy in code quantum. Would humans be the most interesting topic of interest for you? If so, would you see them as species you would think that you would label as wise, intelligent? Would it worth to decipher their language and try to give them some advises, with which chance that they would be followed? Given the way we treat each other and how we treat the rest of the biosphere, what opinion would you have of our species, seriously? Then, wouldn't it some form of wiseness to not reveal yourself until the species proves able to overcome the challenge of leaving peacefully and in harmony with the rest of the cosmos, or goes extinct, or destroy it if it seems to evolve toward a possible form of threat? After all, for such an advenced civilization, spawning a distinct civilization far less advenced such as us, or other forms of life/entity should be a peace of cake, so this would be no big loss, would it?