8/24 Discussed Kant’s remarks about extraterrestrials. What does it mean when somebody (something) is more intelligent than something else? Aren’t they performing the same operations, only one does it faster? A single thought goes several more steps, while the steps themselves are nothing mysterious? What radically different, irreducible operations could there be? Compare the concept of self that is not developed in newborns, the executive function that is not developed in teenagers. – Same thing about ethics. Would something with better ethics operate in the same system of values, only be more consistent, more selfless, more heroic about it? What kind of values, or principles, could there be that would be incomprehensible to us?