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What is the bare minimum animal where its smartest member is as smart as the dumbest human? (lemmy.world)

submitted 23 hours ago by nomorebillboards@lemmy.world to c/science@lemmy.world

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Is the smartest dog smarter than the dumbest human? Smartest cat? Smartest rat? It's something I've been thinking about for several days.

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[–] mrsemi@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Unless you want to get into some weird philosophy in defining "human" (no plucked chickens please), the dumbest human would be a newborn with anencephaly. It's a birth defect where you have no brain.

Search that term at your peril.

[–] remon@ani.social 6 points 22 hours ago

The "Ethical issues" section of that wiki page is certainly interesting.