While I was looking up St. Augustine, I came across a philosopher named Descartes. His man vs. animal theory stated that they must have the capacity for speech and act from knowledge. Only humans have minds. No matter how human-like an animal can be, you can always distinguish them from humans. This reminds me of the Movie Planet of the Apes. This movie really tests the theory because Apes act like the humans, but according to Descartes it isn’t possible. When the apes take over, they know how to do so from “previous knowledge” which according to Descartes cant happen to animals. They learned how to be dominant from watching and observing the humans. They stored the information and became intellectual animals. Descartes believed that this could never happen because animals didn’t have the cognitive capacity to store that kind of information. Most people would say the animals became so smart because they got treats, but the animals weren’t given treats from learning how to take over the world. There was no difference between the people and the animals besides their appearance. Descartes theory was flipped in this movie, proving that animals can be just as smart as humans.
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