I love threads like these =)

Humans can survive alone without instinct, we are self-aware. We know we are self-aware. We can study our brains, our conscious mind, we can sit here on computers that convert electric pules into 1s and 0s to discuss this very subject. A 2 year old has more intelligence than many animals. Keep in mind I said intelligence, not educated knowledge.

Dogs are educated. We had to teach them do do tricks. We discovered and retained all this information, passing it down orally, creating written languages and using them as well. hell we decoded the human genome and are using genetic engineering to unlock innate parts of other genomes in birds to bring about properties from Dinosaurs.

The social network we have is also in another class entirely. I'd say we are pretty unique and special. When a monkey or dolphin create fire or go to the moon, I'll be impressed =)