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I don't think anthropomorphizing is so much "terrible" as it is inescapable. We are constantly projecting human frameworks on to other creatures. Because without a framework there is no benchmark to interpret the ways that they are different.
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Petite Bass There's reason to believe different intelligences, however differently wired, are at least comprehensible to each other. We know the common ancestors of molluscs, birds and humans lived WAY earlier than the kind of intelligence we have, so our big clever brains evolved independently, yet crows and octopi aren't inscrutable aliens. I bet knowing how the little minds of social insects produce intelligent hive/swarm behaviours would teach us something of our own composite minds.
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