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ultra-musketeer · 4293 days ago · link · · parent · post: The Brains of the Animal Kingdom: We Have Grossly Underestimated Animal Intelligence
I think we just have to appreciate that intelligence is diverse. Using humans - or even specific types of humans, such as the academically gifted - as models of intelligence, is awfully arrogant, and refuses to acknowledge that the value of people, and of all animals generally, is determined more than by a certain few qualities. I wouldn't go so far as to say that we're all equally intelligent - but I believe that eradicating the hierarchy of intelligence is wiser than proudly preserving it.