Interesting...Nietzsche once defined consciousness (that is, consciousness conscious of itself) as a "disease."
Think of it, we are all walking around with this diseased consciousness, which will, of course, cause the premature death of this planet, or at least of all the other forms of life on it.
And think what a scourge we will have been to the other species! Serve us right if some SuperBrainyAliens should appear here, and decide that we are the yummiest things they ever saw. Since in their eyes we would be just dumb brutes, they would pen us in special stalls, which would not allow us to move (so we would be fatter & juicier); stuff us with hormones, etc.; and then slaughter us, perhaps, by lying us like logs on a conveyor belt, and then sending us down the production line to a big buzzsaw or guillotine type thing, which would chop all our heads off neatly, one by one...And then they would fry us, stew us, bake us, whatever...
Or maybe they would make us their pets, instead. Of course, we would have to be neutered, so we wouldn't multiply too much. But the problem is, humans wouldn't stay cute very long. An old dog or an old cat can still be cute -- but an old human? Ugh...
The only consolation for us would be to point out that the Consciousness of the SuperBrainyAliens is probably even more diseased than our own, for the very reason that it is more advanced....
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