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> seem to think humans are somehow special

Well, not just humans, but large-brained animals that show evidence of understanding of their environment and an some degree of planning ahead.

If we were talking about great apes, cetaceans, or perhaps cephalopods or corvids, maybe we could find some middle ground.

But, if you believe a frog's ability to survive is greatly enhanced by its ability to understand and plan ahead, or a human's ability to survive isn't fundamentally altered by their ability to understand and plan ahead (to the extent that analogies between frog and human survival behavior break down), then we're at a fundamental impasse and we'll just have to agree to disagree.



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