[figure8]

> Or, of course, what aspects of the world are we missing that would be obvious to a slightly more complex intelligence?

Also, there are surely aspects of the world we miss which are probably clear to chimps or even insects.

[andrewl]

Richard Hamming said "Just as there are odors that dogs can smell and we cannot, as well as sounds that dogs can hear and we cannot, so too there are wavelengths of light we cannot see and flavors we cannot taste. Why then, given our brains wired the way they are, does the remark, Perhaps there are thoughts we cannot think, surprise you?"

[kevhito]

Because Turing completeness?

But certainly, there are no doubt emotions, habits, moral concepts, and even "thoughts" that are thoroughly foreign to humans. Not impossible, just foreign.

[pygy_]

Turing completeness requires infinite discrete time steps and memory.

[agumonkey]

Like tuned instruments for a specific context. It's so natural for a fly system to swerve around in all direction, avoid many obstacles and land somewhere like it's tuesday.