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by bee_rider 827 days ago
Does it effectively keep the humans on a pedestal to consider our traits as fundamentally different?

I think it is all on a continuum, humans are animals. But putting us on that continuum makes all the animals look like absolute garbage, intelligence-wise. If we want to put humans in the game, we’re going to be absolutely dunking on, like, every animal in terms of ability to abstract and teach concepts.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=H-fC9uNyhWo

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Technically humans are dunking on all other animals. We're killing them all rather handily.

I'm arguing against the group that think humans aren't animals, that they are imbued with some extra metaphysical secrete sauce that we are incapable of understanding.

This group usually come out strong against any of these studies that hint at some continuum that includes humans and animals on same scale. Even if humans are on far end of the scale.