Interesting article, but lines like this always make me groan: The aliens would, like us, be astonished by the patterns in our shared cosmos and by the

Interesting article, but lines like this always make me groan: The aliens would, like us, be astonished by the patterns in our shared cosmos and by the effectiveness of mathematics in describing those patterns. Why should we assume that any intelligent life form should have a psychology that is human-like in any way whatsoever? You can make the case for mathematical sophistication; but astonishment? I mean, if there are conceptually sophisticated aliens out there (which is a huge "if" that we have no evidence for or against), who's to say that they even have such a state as "astonished"? Maybe they're sitting on their planet right now, and some uninformed and unimaginative journalist in their species is writing in their language: The aliens would, like us, take the patterns in our shared cosmos completely for granted, and find it utterly unremarkable that mathematics are effective in describing those patterns. Just say NO to humans in funny suits!