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Originally Posted by remdog
i know you are achknoledging the fact that they communicate, but i am stating where your argument fails is the fact that their form of communication is indeed complex, just like our own. i am not saying a dog could learn to speak human, but at the same time a human could not learn to speak dog. that is my opinon. i am sayin humans are not greater than any other species because of all the things animals can do that humans can not do. at the same time there are many things humans can do that animals can not. this is what makes us different species, each species has its own goals and its skills that are specifically benefical to thoose goals.
i have much thought of this and the flaw i have with it is in my opinon we are clearly not the only intelligent species. it is clear to me that dogs, dolphins, chimps, lizards and pretty much any living organism is in fact intelligent.
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I mean this in the sense of being able to establish a civilization and construct buildings, communicate, etc. I think it's very possible that during the age of dinosaurs intelligent species could have arisen and created civilizations before the end of the dinosaurs and we would be unable to distinguish it via fossil record. Perhaps a nuclear war caused the end of the dinosaurs instead of a comet, or perhaps this intelligent species created climate change that resulted in the death of dinosaurs. Would it even be possible to tell? Humans have only existed in a civilized manner for the last 10,000 years and if we cause our own demise in the next thousand that's only a blip on the radar for future intelligence to detect.
Unlikely, but possible?