It seems like people are really stuck to this idea that we’re unique. Perhaps they lose something if they feel we aren’t special. Back in the day, it was that we were at the center of the universe, and anyone who said otherwise was a heretic. Now we’re in the midst of some people saying we have to be unique from the animals, we couldn’t have evolved from them. And then there’s intelligence. We have to be the only ones who are intelligent right? According to Searle, even if we have a machine that behaves and acts indistinguishably from a human, it can’t be intelligent - it doesn’t have our secret brain stuff. Well I’ve got news for everyone. We’re are unique. Each one of us is different in subtle or not so subtle ways. But we’re not special, other creatures can be intelligent, other planetary bodies can have things orbiting around them, other planets can have life. Accept it.