> The belief that we’re different from other organisms may be an incurable human illusion. Except some of us don’t share this belief, at least not as it is nor

> The belief that we’re different from other organisms may be an incurable human illusion. Except some of us don’t share this belief, at least not as it is normally understood. Don’t get me wrong, I believe I am different from crows and monkeys and dolphins… …I just believe these differences to be quantitative, not qualitative - and it is the qualitative differences most articles like this opine upon (souls, levels of self awareness absent in other creatures, etc.). Given that I do not believe in souls, it is easy(ish) for me to consider qualitative differences and conclude that only arrogance would support my dismissing self awareness among crows and monkeys and dolphins. They may have it. They may not. And if they do, it may be alien to ours, so different they don’t think we have it either. I am very comfortable believing and asserting that the differences between us and them are merely quantitative, more or less muscle here, more or less specific brain function there, perhaps largely equivalent affective function.