I don't think it's necessarily wrong that, understanding some animals as smarter and more complex than others, humans are uniquely considered ensouled. There's something to be said about us as machines which ride down an entropy gradient to create more machines of the same shape as us, which also contain the ability to model the universe around us, including a model of other beings and the models inside their brains. And we owe that to us having lots o neurons in our brains.

But we know for 100% certain that dolphins do this too, and they have bigger brains than us too.

Perhaps humans are simply advantaged to create collaborative cultures of knowledge by virtue of having hands with fingers? Humans are advantaged to learn more faster in our short lives, just by virtue of inheriting a world made better by the previous inheritors.

This is fucked up and colonial, perhaps, but maybe dolphins can save us?

Here's the idea:

• Study dolphins

• Create tools that allow them to create more tools

• Maybe they can work together, save Earth from humanity, and end up with a utopia better than you and I could imagine

Maybe it also turns out really bad. Nobody can know