We are so hardwired for human exceptionalism that we can't even entertain the thought of there ever being something better that replaces us, which is what's has

We are so hardwired for human exceptionalism that we can't even entertain the thought of there ever being something better that replaces us, which is what's has occurred for 99.9% of species so far and makes it a statistical certainty. It's hubris manifest to think that we'll live unchanged until the heat death of the universe.