• Klear@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    There’s been numerous attempts to separate humans from other animals, various skills or behaviours said to demonstrate how we’re different and better and one by one each of those have been found in other species. Therefore I propose that the thing that actually separates humans from animals is that need to differentiate ourselves. No other species does that!

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      7 months ago

      Have they found an “animal” capable of complex maths and philosophy yet? I submit the difference isn’t a whole category like tool usage, but the complexity of it.