[Space] How alien are your aliens?

[Johnny1A.2]

Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl

We have no idea how true aliens will think because they are not related to us at all, so we really have no idea how generalizable our emotions are. For example, humans share 50% of their genes with pine trees, so we have more in common with plants than any true alien.

Except that trees are, as far as we know, not self-aware. We don't know anything about the nature of sapiency, as such, since we're the only known example, we don't know how different from us it can be, or how much like us it would have to be. No data.