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Yet you can cut down those trees to build housing more suited to you or plant new ones which requires long-term planning. If climbing trees was important to us
by account42 1y ago
Yet you can cut down those trees to build housing more suited to you or plant new ones which requires long-term planning. If climbing trees was important to us we'd build machines to do it better than any ape that ever lived. That's human exceptionalism. It's why humans have conquered the globe while apes live in the space we let them.
- ceejayoz 1y ago“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
- account42 1y agoYou're quoting fiction written by a human. Fiction means that it isn't real. Yet we can still imagine it to amuse ourselves and share our imaginations with others. Something else that your apes have not achieved and neither have the dolphins.
- ceejayoz 1y agoAt least one ape species has accomplished it!