Now that we no longer follow the Cartesian philosophies, which believed that except for mankind there was NO other intelligent, sentient, and self-aware creature on Earth;
and in light of the Chinese experiment showing that young chimpanzees can remember the sequence of numbers (numerals, actually) 1-9, and track them on a computer screen better than humans can;
and in light of being able to teach Sign Language to apes, who in turn can teach OTHER apes;
Well, when are we as a species going to recognize that our "dominance" is only a result of our peculiar ability to manufacture all sorts of machines, and not something that makes us inherently "closer to God", or distinctively intelligent, or otherwise so terminally unique as to be the only creature with a "soul" ?
2007-12-08
21:43:35
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