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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Plenty of animals show self awareness and even theories of mind (they model the personalities of those around them to predict outcomes).
There's plenty of other intelligent and self-aware beings around. It's more likely to be a communications issue that prevents us from readily perceiving the sophistication of other social species.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind_in_animals
Articulate dialogue and dexterity of tool use are basically all that separates us from other species. We're no where near as superior as most people intuite. Your sense of superiority is an intuition, a guess.
Give seals, or dogs a voice box and hands, and they'd soon breed up the rest of what makes humans, human.
I see dogs using those speech buttons on the internet and talking about their dreams to their owners and cannot believe that humans are the only animals with consciousness.