This reminds me of a passage in "Godel, Escher, Bach" by Douglas Hofstadter discussing the Golden Record[1].
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[C]onsider a
meteorite which, instead of deciphering the outer-space Bach record, punctures it with
colossal indifference, and continues in its merry orbit. It has interacted with the record in
a way which we feel disregards the record's meaning. Therefore, we might well feel
tempted to call the meteorite "stupid". But perhaps we would thereby do the meteorite a
disservice. Perhaps it has a "higher intelligence" which we in our Earth chauvinism
cannot perceive, and its interaction with the record was a manifestation of that higher
intelligence. Perhaps, then, the record has a "higher meaning"-totally different from that
which we attribute to it; perhaps its meaning depends on the type of intelligence
perceiving it. Perhaps.
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""" [C]onsider a meteorite which, instead of deciphering the outer-space Bach record, punctures it with colossal indifference, and continues in its merry orbit. It has interacted with the record in a way which we feel disregards the record's meaning. Therefore, we might well feel tempted to call the meteorite "stupid". But perhaps we would thereby do the meteorite a disservice. Perhaps it has a "higher intelligence" which we in our Earth chauvinism cannot perceive, and its interaction with the record was a manifestation of that higher intelligence. Perhaps, then, the record has a "higher meaning"-totally different from that which we attribute to it; perhaps its meaning depends on the type of intelligence perceiving it. Perhaps. """
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyager_Golden_Record