It's not the kind of puzzle I questioned it was you saying the squirrel was "taught" to press the lever, when in fact the lever was put there and the squirrel figured it out for himself.
However in nature animals figure out how to reach things that are out of reach, how to open things, how to escape things etc. etc. Granted not all animals.
But as to being special that will always depend on what the measurement is. Personally I think there are things in nature that have their own "specialness"
That's another thing which makes us special. We consider that we are capable of good and bad, we are that self-aware. Does anyone think that another animal can be good or bad.
I think this is a much better example with a few provisos. Perhaps it is rare for animals to know the difference between good and bad, but I am undecided on if it is impossible. First we have to define good and bad. In your example of the lion killing its food is natures method bad?. It may be from a human stance but the human method is rare in nature. It could be said it's a matter of opinion. How many animals kill for pleasure? (even without the ability to know good or bad)
Some animals have complex social systems that we don't fully understand, how do we know that they don't have good/bad rules within those systems, and would the good/bad rules match our own? We don't know everything about nature.
All this aside I note that the point gepper raised was about getting into heaven
first off, when did we become special? if you believe in evolution and heaven, do mice and amoebas go to heaven?
Hasn't been answered.
Perhaps he could clarify this for me but even given the previous post It
seems to me he was asking from a spiritual stance as to what was special about humans compared to other animals in regards to getting into heaven.
If that is the case our "superiority" would be irrelevant in answering the question.
If this is not what he was asking, ignore this.
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