Other animals do share many brain structures with us, but by the same token, most animals lack brain structures that are the most fundamental to what make us human. As far as I am aware (and I will quickly get out of my depth here), only mammals have a neocortex, and small mammals don’t have much of one.
Hopefully this is clear from my post, but ChatGPT hasn’t made me rethink my beliefs about primates or even dogs. It definitely has made me more uncertain about invertebrates, reptiles, and fish. (I have no idea what to think about birds.)
Other animals do share many brain structures with us, but by the same token, most animals lack brain structures that are the most fundamental to what make us human. As far as I am aware (and I will quickly get out of my depth here), only mammals have a neocortex, and small mammals don’t have much of one.
Hopefully this is clear from my post, but ChatGPT hasn’t made me rethink my beliefs about primates or even dogs. It definitely has made me more uncertain about invertebrates, reptiles, and fish. (I have no idea what to think about birds.)
Birds have structures with functions and evolutionary origin similar to the (neo)cortex:
https://www.science.org/content/article/newfound-brain-structure-explains-why-some-birds-are-so-smart-and-maybe-even-self-aware
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bird-brains-are-far-more-humanlike-than-once-thought/