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Originally Posted by Kioma
Fortunately, both the ego and the intellect can be valuable tools if not allowed to run things
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Ego is an abstract ergo
Metaphsyical-1, mind/intellect/conceptual associated phenomena resultant of complex biologicals that have a nervous system.
Woman being the most complex with man a close 2nd.
As for other less complex animals, they all have a complex consciousness, that, with mammals do have some varying degrees of access to abstract
Metaphyiscal-1, mind/intellect/conceputal behaviours, that, may include and ego. I dunno.
Cetacean perhaps having the most access to this abstract abilities are most likely case for access to some degree of
abstract ego. I saw a program some years back, about man who was using microphones to listen to dolphins or or porposies, where he believe he heard the parent{s} using indivualistic calls for each individual offspring/progeny.
Here is what I found on quick search.
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And here
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....."Bottlenose dolphins therefore appear to be unique as nonhuman mammals to use learned signals as individually specific labels for different social companions in their own natural communication system"...