[pixl97]

>but there may be some aspect of the human manifestation of that form that will forever remain distinct to humans.

Lets not forget the converse may be true for AI. Humans may be a very specialized form of intelligence (though we do like to consider ourselves general intelligences).

[zoogeny]

That is one implication. There is a sense in which the "beauty" that is particular with a rose shares more in common with a lily compared to the "beauty" either share with music. So it is the degree of particular-ness that is a matter of personal interpretation.

Imagine a science fiction future where we use AIs to enhance neuroscience to determine how to make Octopuses more intelligent, such that they reach LLM levels or near human levels of language. Is their brain not a neural network that could be optimized?

In our wildest dreams we might consider the breadth of intelligence possible and our particular relationship with respect to it. We might face questions that are harder to answer than we anticipate.

Perhaps considering the question is more important than deciding on an answer?