God fashioned man in his own image and likeness; he gave him knowledge of himself; he endowed him with the ability to think which raised him above all living creatures ….
The Rule of St. Basil
The modern objective consciousness will go to any length to prove that it is not unique in the Cosmos, and by this very effort establishes its own uniqueness. Name another entity in the Cosmos which tries to prove it is not unique.
Walker Percy, Lost in the Cosmos (1983)
Petty Armchair Popery 
Nor has anyone demonstrated the existence of an entity, besides man and his Creator, which has the rational intellectual faculty to formulate proofs.
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