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> 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
by naveensundar 1y 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.
- self_awareness 1y ago[flagged]
- account42 1y agoIt 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 1y agoThe fact that they can only do that inside the human imagination is another argument for human exceptionalism.
- self_awareness 1y agoNo. "Doing it" is also a human concept. Tiger doesn't care about you and what you think.
- wolvesechoes 1y agoCaring about something is also human concept, so saying that tiger cares or not is nonsense.
- self_awareness 1y agoTiger cares about its offspring.
- naveensundar 1y agoYou are missing the point. Almost all animals care about their offspring. There are other animals with sharp claws. But only one animal does this kind of introspective arguing.