Plenty of animals display intelligence, and learning. It not a unique an ability as some would have you believe. I'm thinking of primates especially and to a lesser extent dolphins & cephalapods.

A more unique ablility that we have developed has been described as extelligence, the ability to write down ideas in order to communicate across time. Art is another form of this. When you think about it, it is truly remarkable that we are privy to the thought processes of people from thousands of years ago.

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