Now, you're pointing at a minority opinion there.

I think culture is still stuck in the second part of what you were saying.

Originally, we thought that we were at the center of the universe.

This was the religious conception of man's place in the cosmos.

The earth was surrounded by the celestial spheres,

and everything was orbiting around the earth.

So we were the inheritors of the entire universe,

and God had gifted us with this.

And then science showed us that, in fact,

we're not at a particularly special place in the universe.

This is the cosmological principle.

This idea that the universe is roughly the same at every single place.

And we are just one of those particularly unspecial places.

And not only are we unspecial in the cosmological sense,

but biologically, when I think particularly special,

we're just on the continuum between bacteria to cockroaches,

through to dogs and chimpanzees.

An astrophysic, absolutely love on almost every other topic,

Neil the Grass Tieson.

He was talking about how chimpanzees are a lot smarter than what we think

in chimpanzees might be thinking about all sorts of stuff.

And we're just not that much better.

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