Until We Meet Galactic Squids

It's impossible not to think like a human, because every human that is thinking is a human. So it's literally impossible, until we've figured out some way to avatar our brains inside of a galactic squid and then learn how differently they view the universe. I worry that when we do meet the aliens, either they'll be so alien that we can't talk to them, which means that that fascinatingly useful, incredibly different perspective will be lost on us. They'll have nothing really to add to the conversation, because they'll basically just be other humans. That's my theory.