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> surprise, cattle are equally emotional, smart, curious etc.

Measured how?

It would indeed be a surprise if cows were equally emotional, smart, and curious as any other species. Equality on three different dimensions should essentially never happen.

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cows might be more in some dimensions like emotion because cattle raise their young unlike octopus which doesn't . does that make the equation any easier to accept?

why is this a controversial idea? mammals indeed are smarter than mollusks (of which octopus is one).

> why is this a controversial idea? mammals indeed are smarter than mollusks (of which octopus is one).

Well, what you said before was that cows were equally smart. Do you think "equally smart" and "smarter" mean the same thing?

i should've used, at least as smart as. i apologize

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