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Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks agoIn the conversation of very smart animals the usual suspects are corvids, primates, dolphins and elephants, sometimes octopi.
So when I say “by our standards “ take it to mean the standards of mainstream conversation regarding intelligence. I don’t know much about the actual intelligence of lizards and I would not presume to ever be able to measure it correctly as human bias would make it impossible to judge intelligence factually.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
Then don’t talk about their intelligence.
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
Sorry for insulting your intelligence lizard person.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 5 weeks ago
When you casually call a type of animal stupid it is just a promise of violent against that animal at a later date, I don’t mean this as an attack or a gotcha, it is just unfortunately how humans work.
Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
I didn’t call them stupid. All I meant is that they are not what we consider in mainstream conversation the “smart animals” to illustrate a point. And I very much agree with you, I’m actually writing a piece making the argument that humans are not in fact, conclusively smarter than animals. We seem to be smarter due to our biases and because we have the ability to transfer knowledge more efficiently than other species. But it is not clear to me that a human, tabula rasa, absent socialization and knowledge transfer would be much smarter than the average animal of any species.