If we can learn about human cognition, behaviour and pathology by studying insects, how does this blur the boundaries between ‘us’ and ‘them’?

Human beings are a part of the animal kingdom, not apart from it. The separation of ‘us’ from ‘them’ creates a false picture and is responsible for much suffering.It is part of the in-group/out-group mentality that leads to human oppression of the weak by the strong as in ethnic, religious, political, and social conflicts. Let us open our hearts to

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humans are not more conscious, we don’t have more complex social systems—we just don’t try to understand the depth of the world or our fellow inter-species relatives on this planet. we aren’t more intelligent than dogs, or plants, or insects—we just don’t have models that expand into the intelligence they bring to this earth. if our models of... See more