Really?

Loving Insects

Dumb Humans

We assume that the human nervous system is the most complex of its kind.

Well, we’ve begun to wonder about dolphins and elephants, who seem to have social lives that we can recognize, the way we do our own.

Maybe what affects, or persuades us the most, is that they grieve. As we do.

It’s another piece of our species arrogance, that we measure the so-called intelligence of other species by how much they resemble ours.

We count number of cells and synapses in their brains, and since they’re fewer than ours, we conclude that we’re more intelligent.

But suppose it’s that we have created gauges that conform to how we function, and that in no way determine that we are either smarter or more complex?

I could expand on this almost indefinitely, the curse of being a writer, but that would merely expand on the species arrogance I am highlighting.

So, leave it at that: worms, birds, tarantulas, coyotes, tics, mosquitoes, have evolved ways of perpetuating and thriving.

Had we paid closer attention to how they have managed that, we might not be so seemingly close to extincting ourselves.