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3 minutes ago, bnmjy said:

Language.

I'm not sure that's uniquely human. We may have the most complex, but crows, various sea mammals and other animals do have language in some form.

Dogs also understand some language but that's because of us. Which leads me to my real answer: domestication of dogs. They're the best. We don't even deserve them. 

Sorry @Mini_Ghost Cats are cooler though. 

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3 minutes ago, KimopoBotar said:

I'm not sure that's uniquely human. We may have the most complex, but crows, various sea mammals and other animals do have language in some form.

Dogs also understand some language but that's because of us. Which leads me to my real answer: domestication of dogs. They're the best. We don't even deserve them. 

Sorry mini. Cats are cooler though. 

Fine Complex language. Are other animals able to do even basic mathematics and inflect their speech to the point where abstract thoughts can be conferred, thus building societies with rules and advances in technology like humans? No.

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Just now, bnmjy said:

Fine Complex language. Are other animals able to do even basic language and inflect their speech to the point where abstract thoughts can be conferred, thus building societies with rules and advances in technology like humans? No.

You're right. That was really pedantic of me and I apologize. 

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5 minutes ago, KimopoBotar said:

I'm not sure that's uniquely human. We may have the most complex, but crows, various sea mammals and other animals do have language in some form.

Dogs also understand some language but that's because of us. Which leads me to my real answer: domestication of dogs. They're the best. We don't even deserve them. 

Sorry @Mini_Ghost Cats are cooler though. 

we didn't even domesticate cats, not really, they domesticated themselves from the mutual benefits of them killing rats and things. and I'd agree with your statement

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Just now, Mini_Ghost said:

we didn't even domesticate cats, not really, they domesticated themselves from the mutual benefits of them killing rats and things. and I'd agree with your statement

I think that's why the Egyptians worshipped them. Cats where just kinda like "we live here now, go about your lives, we'll keep disease carrying stuff away but that's it" and Egyptians were like "whoa, Frank got a cat and his kid didn't get the plague! Cats must be gods!"

Or something like that. 

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1 minute ago, KimopoBotar said:

I think that's why the Egyptians worshipped them. Cats where just kinda like "we live here now, go about your lives, we'll keep disease carrying stuff away but that's it" and Egyptians were like "whoa, Frank got a cat and his kid didn't get the plague! Cats must be gods!"

Or something like that. 

yeah that has a lot to do with it I agree 100%

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Whoever is considered the primary authority/scholar on James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.

 

 

Edit: For some reason I read this as greatest achievement BY a human, so I'll have to return to this question. 
It might just still be the greatest human achievement to read through it and say you understand it.

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2 hours ago, Mini_Ghost said:

we didn't even domesticate cats, not really, they domesticated themselves from the mutual benefits of them killing rats and things. and I'd agree with your statement

Most of the time, it seems like they've domesticated, or at least trained, us.

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