Absolutely! And if it really is a global extinction event at the moment, I can't wait to see what wonderful new variants will blossom from that tabula rasa in

Absolutely! And if it really is a global extinction event at the moment, I can't wait to see what wonderful new variants will blossom from that tabula rasa in ten to twenty million years. Will they be less conscious or more, more or less social, more or less intelligent, more distributed intelligence like in insect societies? Will they be smaller, smarter, more vicious? No doubt, a deep valley is surrounded by high hills.