Read the paper, and see if it makes you think about it any more.
I read it. It doesn't convince me that we are not special. I think it is self evident that we are.
Of course we can say that every species is special in their own way, but I think humans have the ultimate specialness.
WRT the human centered definition of special: We are the ones doing the defining and considering, isn't that specialness enough in itself?
I realize that dolphins might be talking about how special they are and thinking that because we aren't talking back then we are less special and they are the ultimate in specialness but I highly doubt that they are considering this.
Science fails to recognize the single most potent element of human existence.
Letting the reigns go to the unfolding is faith, faith, faith, faith.
Science has failed our world.
Science has failed our Mother Earth.
-System of a Down, "Science"
He who makes a beast out of himself, gets rid of the pain of being a man.
-Avenged Sevenfold, "Bat Country"
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