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What truly distinguishes humans is:

a) recursive language

Ability to encode abstract models, transmit concepts and build institutions.

b) symbolic cognition

We can treat representations (symbols) like real things.

c) hyper-social brain

Our intelligence evolved for cooperation, gossip, alliances, status, narrative and not just pure logic.

d) cumulative culture

Each generation builds on the last.

e) imagination and simulation

Massive prefrontal networks for scenario building.

f) complex intentionality

We can model what others think about what we think.

Reason is just one subroutine inside this enormous architecture.

Meaning, desire, purpose. All three originate in systems older and deeper than logic.