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Human brain is the most complex thing in the universe that we know of so I'd say we're somewhat special. This however doesn't change the fact that a rat's brain ranks pretty high up on that list aswell.
Sometimes I wish I was more on the rat brain end, but maybe more the spoiled family dog end.
that's a tricky assumption. by what metric is it the "most complex thing"? it isn't the thing with the most neurons, elephants have many more than us. it isn't the genetic complexity, some plants out-compete us there. we certainly are impressive, but there is no metric by which we can name ourselves objectively unique.
actually, almost all cetacean brains are more complex than human brains by every measure; more neurons, more interconnections, greater size, more convolutions on the surface.