Since writing this, I have come across Moravec’s paradox, which is, in fact, precisely what I intended to get at with this piece.
See also e.g. the ocean from Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris for an amazing account in fiction of the inscrutability of understanding intelligences very difficult than us. It is a case where our intuitions almost necessarily carry us astray.
Since writing this, I have come across Moravec’s paradox, which is, in fact, precisely what I intended to get at with this piece.
See also e.g. the ocean from Stanislaw Lem’s Solaris for an amazing account in fiction of the inscrutability of understanding intelligences very difficult than us. It is a case where our intuitions almost necessarily carry us astray.