[matthewwiese]

I don't think you intended your first remark to sound like this, but I'd imagine the same could be said of us from the perspective of a highly advanced interstellar species: how different can the experiences be between humans, right? However, given the level of complexity of a fruit fly I know this metaphor doesn't necessarily hold when analyzed from the perspective of a human. Yet, who is to say beings beyond our comprehension wouldn't think the same of us?

Unless of course that was your point this entire time and I just stupidly repeated it in a more garrulous manner.

[namanyayg]

We have society, schooling, media, art, and culture; and every human is unique and individual thanks to thousands of years of these.

Even if we got a fruit fly to speak, it's likely that every other fruit fly will say very similar things as they just have the genetic code but no "culture."

So I think the difference here is caused by society, not by simplicity. Each human carries the combined knowledge of ancestors.

[Loughla]

That was exactly my point.