I think you can envision “non-human-like”. Eg we already imagine animals can be conscious. Conscious just means an intelligence that is self-aware and has subj

I think you can envision “non-human-like”. Eg we already imagine animals can be conscious. Conscious just means an intelligence that is self-aware and has subjective experience. If you define that as human-like then your point stands tautologically. But I think there is a very wide space of conscious possible-minds. Simple examples would be hive-minds, faster minds, slower minds, distributed minds, quantum minds, it’s really quite easy to imagine conscious non-human minds.