The “a few other species may have primitive analogues” disclaimer was supposed to cover things like this.
See above. This is not about human or mammalian chauvinism. This is about the fact that, whatever neat things some species can do, there also exist numerous biological niches that do not in fact involve higher-level cognitive functions such as “curiosity”. Most organisms don’t even have brains, for goodness’ sake.
The “a few other species may have primitive analogues” disclaimer was supposed to cover things like this.
See above. This is not about human or mammalian chauvinism. This is about the fact that, whatever neat things some species can do, there also exist numerous biological niches that do not in fact involve higher-level cognitive functions such as “curiosity”. Most organisms don’t even have brains, for goodness’ sake.