Alien: “One of the problems with you humans is that you don’t understand what your brains are for.”

Human: “What do you mean? We know perfectly well what our brains are for! They’re useful for all sorts of things. The brain interprets internal signals from the body and external ones from the environment. Then, we respond to them.”

Alien: “You just described a lizard’s brain. Let me rephrase my comment. While you humans seem to grasp that your brains are more ‘advanced’ than supposedly ‘lower creatures’, you don’t understand how they got that way.”

Human: “Well, we are obviously more intelligent than other creatures. This is our planet, after all. We rule the roost!”

Alien: “Yes, you’re all geniuses. But why humans and not other creatures? If your intelligence is so marvelous, then why haven’t other life-forms developed similar levels of intelligence?”

Human: “Didn’t we out-compete them?”

Alien: “That’s a nice way of saying that you killed them all. Life is not all peaches and cream. Humans don’t like competition, so any creatures that are even remotely threatening to you are tossed out the tenth floor window. Not to mention all the other creatures that you’ve either eaten to extinction, or ruined their habitats. That explains why there are no longer any other ‘homo’ species. Only homo sapiens. The brain is an organ that evolved through a process of natural selection, which is a nice way of saying that less brainy humans either got intentionally killed or simply died off because you out-competed them for mates and resources. You do understand that humans can be competitive killers, right?”

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