"<a href=""https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZecQ64l-gKM&amp;t=1h03m00s"">1:03:00</a> I disagree. We would not try to teach an ant calculus", but we do try to communicate with lesser primates, and dolphins because they show a certain aptitude. Our aptitude is that we do realize, that there are planets, galaxies, moon, stars, and gravity. Which is the fundamentals of reality. No other species on this planet can conceptualize that. Definitely our aptitude is the fact that we know how to destroy a planet, and that we are on the verge creating artificial intelligence.. if we can create something that is smarter than us, that certainly merits us a conversation. Or at least try to communicate. We are definitely not ants in this analogy.. at minimum to an advanced species we are the primates, and dolphins. However I do agree with Lee Cronin, in the fact that if we can't even recognize them, then yes we are the ants in the analogy.