I wish more people recognized that. We simmer in a human-centric world, and describe it in a human way, all our lives. It takes conscious and significant effort

I wish more people recognized that. We simmer in a human-centric world, and describe it in a human way, all our lives. It takes conscious and significant effort to step out of our preconceptions and imagine what the world might look like for the Other. We've been struggling to understand how animals see the world, we're struggling to guess whether AI sees the world, we struggle to imagine how extraterrestials see the world. Heck, we don't even have a solid definition for what an "alien" is, one that could help us draw a line between e.g. a geological process and a living thing. See the novels "Solaris" and "Invincible" by Stanisław Lem. For a more Earthly take, Frank Schätzing explored what another animal might see like in The Swarm. For me, the realization came with the advent of LLMs. If we dropped a probe on a different planet, and found something behaving like LLMs there, I would not be able to say if that's an advanced form of a native inhabitant of the planet or not.