To bring in some cosmic horror, is an ant aware of humans? Can a deep sea fish comprehend what is happening when a deep sea probe illuminates it? Of course, th

To bring in some cosmic horror, is an ant aware of humans? Can a deep sea fish comprehend what is happening when a deep sea probe illuminates it? Of course, that has the assumption that aliens are a bajillion years ahead of us in terms of evolution, size, consciousness etc, that's only one school of thought. If there's an alien race with comparable intellect and the like, I'm confident we'd detect it and communication would be possible. Anyway my cat understands me just fine, she just chooses to ignore me.