>>11769352Here's some information, then.
Dolphins are overrated.
They're quite intelligent, and probably have conscious experiences comparable to our own.
However, they're not "smart" beyond a capacity to be fairly adept at solving problems immediately relevant to their survival.
Dolphins have not invented anything, they have no written history or forms of persistent education beyond animal demonstration and primitive linguistic communication that is inferior proto afro civilizations circa 10,000 years ago.
Their behavior is summarily limited to generally complex social interactions and general animal survival. But that doesn't make them "smart".
Their intelligence makes them good at being dolphins, not good at being more than dolphins.
Comparatively, early hominid intelligence resulted in the creation of basic tools, agriculture, and complex social behavior that allowed them to form more interdependent tribal units and actually ascend beyond vulnerability to natural threats that were previously severely limiting to population and intellectual growth.
Dolphins lack the physiological and intellectual capacity for this sort of abstract problem solving, and the most complex thing they do that elevates them beyond basic survival is knowing that they can get shit from humans.
Dolphins are at an intellectual dead-end until they learn to write, which is fucking hard when you're an aquatic species.
