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[–] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

No, and I hadn't even heard of Soulism before now. I think I'd probably be considered a Relativist, and I'm definitely an Anarchist.

WRT the above, I just think that humans have a very narrowminded view of the universe around us, where we try to make everything conform to our own paradigms (e.g. our attempts to define animal intelligence based on them exhibiting human characteristics, rather than classifying each of their forms of intelligence by their own behavioral characteristics).

Is the less-intelligent brain the baboon one that doesn't bother trying to tell whether something is a reflection of itself, or is it the human one that can't see a similar-looking human without their mind doing a double-take to avoid otherwise descending into dreadful existential ponderings.

Baboon brains simply can't create Jet Li's The One, is I guess what I'm saying, and I think that really tilts the intelligence definition in their favor.