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naveensundar | 6 months ago

> Eagles see a lot better than we do. Sea sponges live much longer. Dolphins are really good at echolocation; people are generally really bad at it. And yet we keep proclaiming how special we are. As Webb puts it, “Hamlet got one thing right: we’re a piece of work.

Oh yeah? But which one of those species is writing a book challenging their own exceptionalism.

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self_awareness|6 months ago

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account42|6 months ago

It would be saying that while caged off or otherwise having its living space restricted by humans. And those humans are using using much better "claws" that are propelled at great speed to keep that tiger in check from a safe distance.

DecoySalamander|6 months ago

The fact that they can only do that inside the human imagination is another argument for human exceptionalism.