User blog comment:Mr.Robbo/Human Chauvinism 5/@comment-4364108-20140106235932/@comment-4799917-20140107023540

Thinking slower would bring their sentience quotient down. I could hardly call it sentience if it takes you five minutes to fire one weapon, your race would go extinct upon contact with another, and you would be easily eaten by superior animals if you ever colonized other planets.

Face it, if you made an alien with an alien thought process, it would be far less interesting than if they had a human-like throught process. Yuy isn't saying that it's bad to have alien thought processes, rather that it's good to have relatable characters with human emotions - pride, envy, love, hate, et cetera. I'm more here to write fiction than to write articles, and I've learned quite a bit about writing fiction over these few years I've been writing.