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Animal Intelligence
![[(Gorillas in the Mist )] [Author by Dian Fossey](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1698016882l/133287321._SX98_.jpg "[(Gorillas in the Mist )] [Author by Dian Fossey")
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If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as "human rights"? How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder? What further properties must he show before religious missionaries must
consider him worthy of attempts at conversion?
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― The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
― The Dragons of Eden: Speculations on the Evolution of Human Intelligence
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According to Hindu mythology, the universe was created with a sound: "om." It is a syllable that contains within it everything that ever was and everything that will be. When the Arecibo telescope is pointed at the space between stars, it hears a faint hum. Astronomers call that the cosmic microwave background. It's the residual radiation of the Big Bang, the explosion that created the universe fourteen billion years ago. But you can also think of it as a barely audible reverberation of that ori
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― The Great Silence
― The Great Silence
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