In my opinion, EY’s point is valid—to the extent that the actor and observer intelligence share neighboring branches of their developmental tree. Note that for any intelligence rooted in a common “physics”, this says less about their evolutionary roots and more about their relative stages of development.
Reminds me a bit of the jarred feeling I got when my ninth grade physics teacher explained that a scrambled egg is a clear and generally applicable example of increased entropy. [Seems entirely subjective to me, in principle.] Also reminiscent of Kardashev with his “obvious” classes of civilization, lacking consideration of the trend toward increasing ephemeralization of technology.
In my opinion, EY’s point is valid—to the extent that the actor and observer intelligence share neighboring branches of their developmental tree. Note that for any intelligence rooted in a common “physics”, this says less about their evolutionary roots and more about their relative stages of development.
Reminds me a bit of the jarred feeling I got when my ninth grade physics teacher explained that a scrambled egg is a clear and generally applicable example of increased entropy. [Seems entirely subjective to me, in principle.] Also reminiscent of Kardashev with his “obvious” classes of civilization, lacking consideration of the trend toward increasing ephemeralization of technology.