Anthropocentric fallacy

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Anthropocentric Fallacy is a Philosphical Concept central to Stanislaw Lem 's Novel His Masters Voice. Humans are able to comprehend what they can taste, smell, feel, and the like. They can, however, not grasp concepts like gravity of black holes the same way.

Complex problems like huge numbers of individuals also exceed the capacity of human mind to comprehend.


 The assessment of reality through an exclusively human perspective.

Intelligence could take many forms, such as intelligent mushrooms, plasmotic oceans, aerobic/anaerobic hybrid mounds, artificial intelligence in a machine, be it in a supercomputer cooled by a river, growing inside of a planet and growing further inward, swarms intelligence of single parts combining, gaseous intelligence, 


But humans with their earthbound existence (their whole organism being unable to even regulate blood pressure properly in zero gravity) are not able to assess those beings deeper thoughts, nor their concepts or culture.