Are you a lumper or a splitter?

[Anomalocaris]

Whether nature gives a fuck means nothing.  We are we and not the rest of nature, nor are we spokes beings for nature.   We likely owe our existence to our ability to defied nature in a manner other organism can’t.

We are certainly more special than any other animal for the our purpose of forming a working relationship to design a Tool.   You simply prefer an loose concept of similarity based on personal aesthetic reasons, and then pick working definition of similarity to support the aesthetic taste, rather than give weight to pragmatic reasons which raise the importance of dissimilarity.

Ask the meteor that killed off the dinosaurs how special it thought they were. Ask the dinosaurs that are still alive how they mastered the planet.

Yes, we have a cognition to invent very complex tools. YES. BUT NO, sorry, even with our advanced knowledge it will not make us infinite. Humans ARE NOT superior. We simply have different adaptations and those 'tools" we invent, can lead to both good and bad. Oil created our industrial revolution, but it is now coming back to bite us in the ass in climate change. Not just harming other species but us as well.

Again, loosely picking facts to support an aesthetically motivated view.   We certainly are superior to all those species we brought to extinction in our pursuit of our own convenience.   We have reasonable hopes of being able to thwart another Dino killing asteroid in the extremely near future in geological terms, ask the dinosaurs what they had on the drawing board.

In the interest of fulfilling the aesthetic desire to say humans are no different from animals, you’ve shifted the goal post effectively from humans have to have unique traits and capabilities to be considered different from other animals  to humans have to be all powerful and eternal gods to be considered different from other animals.