I agree with ljk that duplicating the human brain is not the way to go, just as duplicating bird flight was not the way to actually achieve flight (with a fixed wing).
To digress from this, I would like to suggest that among the 100 billion galaxies accessible to telescopes (let alone what we aren't aware of) anything imaginable by a puny human brain, as relates to extreme engineering or civilizational assemblage, HAS ALREADY BEEN accomplished, perfected, AND SURPASSED.
Perhaps our highest priority should be to be open to communication, which would probably NOT be electromagnetic. Too intrusive. An advanced civilization would not seek to subsume earth species under its knowledge, but to make contact within the experiential subjectivity of the target species. I leave the rest to your imagination.
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