> After 250 years of humanity (well, some of humanity…) confidently atop the great pyramid of being, we in the west are becoming more aware that we might, perha

> After 250 years of humanity (well, some of humanity…) confidently atop the great pyramid of being, we in the west are becoming more aware that we might, perhaps, have company. What a load of crap. Just because cephalopods exhibit behavioral traits that can be classified as intelligence if one defines "intelligence" in a suitable way, doesn't mean that cephalopod intelligence is in any way comparable to human intelligence. Let me know when a giant squid writes a poem, or a honeybee colony develops a theory of thought. Until then, I'm going to flat out dismiss such statements as pseudoscience with some faux-spirituality sprinkled on top of it. > "More-than-human doesn’t even begin to cover it,” Bridle writes in Ways of Being. “Not only are we the products of multiple entangled ancestors, spanning vast ranges of the evolutionary field; we are not even individuals at all.” [Emphasis added] Case in point. Grand claims made without any justification matching their scope, and indeed without elaborating on what exactly those claims even mean. Concluding that individuality in a human sense doesn't exist because of biological endosymbionts is textbook "not even wrong" bollocks.