QuoteEveryone isn't dead, we already agreed on that.
The North Sentinel Islands are at extreme risk. The process of extinction is still at work. The sea is rising as Antarctica continues to melt. A fatal wet-bulb heat wave could wipe them out. A bat flu pandemic could wipe them out if they leave the island. The human bottleneck is sixth extinction tight.
The process of becoming extinct continues. And considering the small number of islanders and the limited number of paths through the forests of their intellectual landscape, the notion of extinction might all ready be extinct.
* Thinking raccoons will think the same way we do is projection. Their concepts will be different. The probability of having the same concepts humanity had is next to zero. Human concepts do not exist without humans present to think about them.