How much of what we know as the fear emotion in ourselves is merely a biological and chemical reaction? What if we can demonstrate some day that our own "intelligence" is merely the result of an incredibly complicated set of chemical and biological reactions, as some people believe.
If we meet aliens some day, I will be less concerned with whether we can understand it and recognize it as intelligent, and more concerned with whether we can convince them that we are actually intelligent, and not merely doing a very good "impression".
