ITT: many propositions and counter-propositions constrained by presumptions that next-level civilization and its modes of being and interacting with the univers

ITT: many propositions and counter-propositions constrained by presumptions that next-level civilization and its modes of being and interacting with the universe are "necessarily" much like our own. One example: "upload" and "simulation" do not have any predetermined relationship to the material behavior of a species engaged in it. The mapping between agency in any presented reality and the species-consensual one is arbitrary and the distinction between simulation and reality might just as well be framed as a question of sensorium cum UX. Very very little can be extrapolated upward from our own limitations and constitution either as individuals or societies or species. An even deeper example: fundamentals like the relationship to time may be radically different. It may not just scale, it may be fractal; and the notion of what constitutes agency and the locus of selfhood and identity, and hence self-interest, may be distributed emergent and predicated on an interplay between ant-and-colony at multiple levels, each of which is fully "conscious" and intentional in the sense we understand those things, at different time scales. What does a third grader know of amortization? We are not even out of the womb as a species.