They do not tell stories. They do not think in stories. Humans do. It is quintessentially human and exclusively human.
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They do not tell stories. They do not think in stories. Humans do. It is quintessentially human and exclusively human.
I think you are making an unsubstantiated claim which narrows the options for understanding. You might want to take a look at Rupert Sheldrake's work on morphic resonance. There is nothing wrong with being animals, nothing at all. You simply cannot prove that other creatures do not have stories.
In point of fact we tell stories about the world and other animals do not. Something has a story because we tell the story. The thing existed whether or not we tell its story, but it cannot tell its story or have a story at all until we tell it.
Humans are animals but they're not beasts