Humans are just intelligent enough to be confident but not quite intelligent enough to have empathy and integrate with our world instead of destroying it. We are so self-centered and hubristic that we believe our intelligence is the apex of intelligence when it’s actually the modus operandi of a cancer at a larger scale.
Would a true intelligence destroy the world it inhabits? Would a true intelligence not integrate and create balance with its world? Would humans even recognize a true intelligence if we saw one?