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Does the animal understand, does it reason, and how much?

⏺Even ants have short understanding in an environment
⏺And dogs, lions, and monkeys have human instincts
⏺In people, instincts weaken, but their understanding becomes stronger instead

Sensation, perception, reasoning, inclinations, instincts, motives, imitation, teaching and learning, all of these words are used by the researcher regarding living creatures, not with regard to their bodies, but with regard to what is behind these bodies of souls and spirits.

Do animals have souls and souls?

Man has a soul and a spirit.
Do animals other than Him have a soul and a spirit?
Does anyone who is lower, such as insects for example, have a soul?
And a soul?

What are the manifestations of these souls, and what is their entity?
And intelligence...what is intelligence? Do animals have intelligence, and how much?

Human arrogance

I once asked our professor, the teacher of our generation, Ahmed Lotfy Al-Sayyid, out of the blue: Do animals have intelligence?

I was silent for a while, and did not let the silence last long, so I continued to say: Animals have intelligence, on levels. A person's monopoly on the quality of intelligence is nothing but a kind of arrogance. Our professor quickly responded: Yes, yes. It is this.

- Do ants have intelligence and language?

I went on to look at ants, which are in the lower ranks of animals.

“Ants, do they have any understanding?”

I said to myself: If he has understanding, then he will act according to the circumstances. I came to a group of very small ants, so I put my finger in their path, and they circled around the finger. She placed a drop of water, came close until she touched it, then moved back, turning around, and placed a crumb of bread, which broke into it, and placed a drop of honey at a great distance from it.
And I watched. The ants go around and around until they fall on the food.
I found an ant heading towards the drop, the drop of honey.
Who guided her? But he did not guide her. Then she touches the drop. Then she backs down. She informed her family and went around them, and a faction of this family was following her. And at the drop of honey there are hundreds of ants carrying food.

Ants must have awareness. For them, this is beneficial, and this is not beneficial. This is dangerous. They must continue, for example, in language? Here the children of Adam shout: No...but how did the first ant convey the news of the drop of honey? How did others understand? How did they follow? Unless it is out of understanding. How does understanding transfer from ant to ant? There must be a way. There must be a language, then, a language in its broadest sense. It is not a language that contains prose and poetry, and it does not have the market of Okaz. But language by definition is that language is what transmits understanding from one living thing to another, even if it is a sign. But a specialized reference has meaning. Therefore, the signs are many and varied, just as the expressions among human beings are many and varied.

Instead of the drop of honey, I put a very small piece of some fish, and I placed it where I did not think there were ants. It only took ten minutes until what I thought were hundreds of ants gathered on it, and they gathered faster than they gathered on the drop of honey, and much faster. I think it's the smell, that's the only thing the two cases differed in.

(Human monopoly on intelligence is arrogance...)