"I believe a proper definition of rational thinking involves the ability of having articulate language." A lot of social animals use complex languages. Do a mu

"I believe a proper definition of rational thinking involves the ability of having articulate language." A lot of social animals use complex languages. Do a mute person think? have feelings? "The danger here is to project our abilities into a small set of faculties animals have and say, look!, we're no better, we're no different." I want to argue the opposite. If your pet looks like have feelings and thoughts, if you see how its behaviour is congruent with curiosity for instance. why do you decide to discard the most obvious hypothesis and decide to create a new category for them? And whatever your reasons, why not to do the same for your neighbour? After all, how can you be sure that your are not projecting?