What is more special, intelligence or consciousness? Hands down it's intelligence. without intelligence then there would not have been complex thoughts. And with complex thought it gives rise to this stupid debate of consciousness. Animals like the elephants or the different whale species have conscious awareness like what Brian said, "that we have." Animals know of their existence and why they run away from a predator, and why there are many that grieves over death in the family. It is intelligence that gave us the idea to invent tools in order to build temples and churches to give some comfort to us of our mortality. This is the same argument that Brian had with the labeling of String Theory, and thinks it should be more String hypothesis. Until Brian is able to communicate with other species and talk with them about consciousness. then the talk of consciousness being only limited to the talking apes should be just a hypothesis.