Maybe it's because the human mind is good at breaking things into neat modules that fit together hierarchically. We can figure them out piecemeal and eventually grasp the whole system. But messy organic systems are not like that, and we just don't have the hardware to perceive everything at once.
Or maybe it's because we have trouble acknowledging that intelligence and consciousness isn't limited to animals, and the human brain doesn't have to epitomize it.
Maybe it's because the human mind is good at breaking things into neat modules that fit together hierarchically. We can figure them out piecemeal and eventually grasp the whole system. But messy organic systems are not like that, and we just don't have the hardware to perceive everything at once.
Or maybe it's because we have trouble acknowledging that intelligence and consciousness isn't limited to animals, and the human brain doesn't have to epitomize it.