I agree. Consider the octopus - each of it's limbs contains it's own cortex and so it has in essence 8 separable brains. Or ants and bees which contain a hive intelligence. An ant has almost no neurons, but the collective number of neurons of an ant hive approaches that of a human brain. These are only creatures that are on our earth that have radically alternative ways of experiencing intelligence. Why would we expect aliens to have an intelligence that's at all comparable to humanity when even somewhat intelligent animals on our planet don't exhibit the same characteristics?