Is it arrogant? Yesterday, my two year old son said “is the tow truck that is coming to get your car a bed truck or a hook truck?”
Other animals are definitely smart in some ways…and probably in ways we don’t understand…but it’s not an overstatement or arrogant to say that we are in a class of our own.
We have particular skills we like to think are most important. We entirely lack other skills, to the point we don't even know about them. Whales, elephants, and octopus probably find us singularly unimpressive at mental achievements they do easily.
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Is it arrogant? Yesterday, my two year old son said “is the tow truck that is coming to get your car a bed truck or a hook truck?”
Other animals are definitely smart in some ways…and probably in ways we don’t understand…but it’s not an overstatement or arrogant to say that we are in a class of our own.
We have particular skills we like to think are most important. We entirely lack other skills, to the point we don't even know about them. Whales, elephants, and octopus probably find us singularly unimpressive at mental achievements they do easily.
Any time animal intelligence comes up, I'm reminded of this very real and informative documentary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-fC9uNyhWo
But still, crows are pretty cool.