Plenty of animals show self awareness and even theories of mind (they model the personalities of those around them to predict outcomes).
There’s plenty of other intelligent and self-aware beings around. It’s more likely to be a communications issue that prevents us from readily perceiving the sophistication of other social species.
Articulate dialogue and dexterity of tool use are basically all that separates us from other species. We’re no where near as superior as most people intuite. Your sense of superiority is an intuition, a guess.
Give seals, or dogs a voice box and hands, and they’d soon breed up the rest of what makes humans, human.
I see dogs using those speech buttons on the internet and talking about their dreams to their owners and cannot believe that humans are the only animals with consciousness.
Plenty of animals show self awareness and even theories of mind (they model the personalities of those around them to predict outcomes).
There’s plenty of other intelligent and self-aware beings around. It’s more likely to be a communications issue that prevents us from readily perceiving the sophistication of other social species.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind_in_animals
Articulate dialogue and dexterity of tool use are basically all that separates us from other species. We’re no where near as superior as most people intuite. Your sense of superiority is an intuition, a guess.
Give seals, or dogs a voice box and hands, and they’d soon breed up the rest of what makes humans, human.
I see dogs using those speech buttons on the internet and talking about their dreams to their owners and cannot believe that humans are the only animals with consciousness.