You have a solipsistic view: you consider the human brain &quot;superior&quot; because it&#x27;s good at things <i>you</i> want to do.  That simply says it&#x27;s better for <i>humans</i>.<p>That doesn&#x27;t mean a dog, whale, elephant or nematode wants to do those things.  In fact the &quot;superior&quot; human brain would be useless for a nematode since that brain has support for organs (i.e. peripherals) the nematode doesn&#x27;t have and requires a lot of energy and other resources the nematode also doesn&#x27;t have access to.  And the mass of nematodes far exceeds the mass of humans on this planet, so who&#x27;s more successful?  Humans are simply more successful <i>at being human</i> and nematodes at being nematoda.<p>You wouldn&#x27;t argue that an i7 would be &quot;superior&quot; in a phone (much less an A9 in a laptop!!) so why is the human brain unequivocally better than all others?<p>I revel in my human brain and would not want to be an animal without opposable manipulators.  But hell, seals and narwals have senses I do not and, Asimov aside, I am sorry I&#x27;ll never know what those feel like.