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Our tool use and application of our intelligence is still quite unique. Special is a loaded term, but humans are very different from all other life forms on this planet - and of course, in many ways, still very much the same.
We're only so different because we already murdered or fucked the species that were similar enough to be a threat.
Also, scientific advancement has been so rapid that it is wholly inaccurate to compare modern humans to apes and then gesture to technology... It wasn't even 400 years ago that Newton was explaining what gravity is, and 400 years is a damn blip on the evolutionary scale of a species that can live 100+ years.
But that's just further proof that we are special. In just some 5000 years we broke the nature meta countless times, and we're doing it again and again faster and faster, we're so fucking smart we're doing the Paleoproterozoic extinction ("Oxygen holocaust") all over again.
No it's not. No it is not proof that we are special. We have NO IDEA what differences make such things unique. To pretend it is our gift alone is to be a self-centered piece of shit.
What do you mean by this? Make what things unique? Why do we have to understand the differences to be sure that the outcome is unique?
I also think you're a piece of shit, if I may respond directly to this indirect insult; now, can we get back to talking normally?