Whales and dolphins exhibit learned and socially transmitted behaviors. Most pronounced, are their hunting strategies. They aren't born with them, they learn them..and they differ pod to pod. Even the language appears to differ group to group.
I'm not sure that there's anyone on earth who can establish that we aren't philosophical driftwood, or, assuming we aren't, that this is meaningfully different from the way that any other animal isn't philosophical driftwood either. It's usually the "simpler" shit that persists, in any case. The "philosophical driftwood" has a much better track record than the things we consider their betters on a self serving scale.
I'm not sure that there's anyone on earth who can establish that we aren't philosophical driftwood, or, assuming we aren't, that this is meaningfully different from the way that any other animal isn't philosophical driftwood either. It's usually the "simpler" shit that persists, in any case. The "philosophical driftwood" has a much better track record than the things we consider their betters on a self serving scale.
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