Serious: The True Ontological Shock Is Cognitive Asymmetry

People keep talking about “ontological shock” regarding UFOs/UAPs as if the truly shocking part would be aliens being technologically superior, interdimensional, or somehow disproving religion. But I think that completely misses the point. The real ontological shock would not be technological inferiority. It would be realizing that human cognition itself may not be universal. Whenever people imagine extraterrestrials, they almost always imagine “advanced humans.” Same basic psychology, same s...