Humans didn't just come into existence knowing how to build houses and grow food. It's completely natural for a human to just sit there and die if he doesn't use his mind to survive. Birds don't do that. That's why we have a term that separates us from animals. We aren't the same.
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dogs are very close to us in this way, they seek outside validation for everything, and compete for the right to be the one making the rules and issuing the commands
this is the downside of being intelligent, you have to form a model in your brain for everything in order to interact with it, it's not preordained in your DNA