Really interesting subject. I&#x27;m more like a forest than an animal!<p>If humans are higher-order animals on top of cells and bacteria (us not caring much about them and them not being aware of us), are humans also the cells of some super-er animals?<p>Apparently the Buddha said that one of the characteristics of reality is that there is no such thing as &quot;you&quot;, no unchanging entity that could be called the perceiver of all these perceptions. I guess we&#x27;re like the boat whose parts are all replaced over time.