In nearly all movies, aliens are considered to have superior brains and intelligence than humans on Earth. Is there a reason why we don’t weigh in the fact that alien species could be of lesser intellect than us?
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Can’t speak to movies, but in reality:
We humans are a very young species, compared to others on Earth. Home Sapiens is only about 300,000 years old – many species last millions of years. Technologically, compared to any hypothetical other tool users from other worlds, we’re probably even younger. We’ve only been able to apply electromagnetism for about 150 years. If tool using species last for 1 million years – not a big deal, really – then we’re just babies. The odds of two babies finding each other before any other more advanced species do is almost certainly very small. We’re much more likely to encounter some species that’s been out there for hundreds of thousands of years, developing better ways of getting around and detecting species like themselves.
The odds of us encountering a much more advanced species has to be greater than the odds of finding a species that has just gotten started like us.
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