On Monday, 6 November 2017 14:57:07 UTC, Robin wrote:
"Horses could indicate whether they wanted a blanket put on or removed
by using symbols provided to them by their trainers. It would appear the
mammalian brain was set up pretty well before we came along!"

which is pretty fortunate for us, given we're one of the later mammals to evolve.

If our starting point had been a goldfish it would have taken us a lot longer to get to where we are now.

Owain