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by johnny_castaway 1516 days ago
Who said we have the "highest" level of consciousness? Flies have 360-degree vision, birds can sense magnetic fields, dogs have way superior sense of smell.

Of course we are superior in many aspects, but we're not "higher" in the general sense. We _are_ animals, we're next to each other.

> why do we assume humans could consciously conceive of whatever life-form is above us?

Can we conceive how to be a "lower" form of consciousness? Or even a different human? For example, we have no idea if everyone perceives colors the same way. We know that butterflies can detect UV light, but is it "mapped" to the same color range that we perceive, or can they perceive colors that we can't even imagine?