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>In contrast, humans are arguably the only creatures in the universe that can think.

Citation very strongly required to back up this statement. I'm not aware of any evidence that this is the case, in fact its quite the opposite.

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Second. Not sure how "think" is being defined here, but even for a spatial/temporal sense of self or mortality I'd say that's probably an incorrect statement. Let alone the general notion of thinking. E.g. dogs exhibit basic thinking like predetermination, delayed gratification, etc.

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