So the usual m ove is to find some other difference which is thought to significantly distinguish humans from animals. The most frequently cited and promising candidate: rationality or the sense of onese lf as a continu ing bein g. Hum ans, it is said , can rea son an d think; an imals (it is presumed) canno t. Moreover, this ability to reason becomes reflected in the human's ability to see herself as a continuing creature as a being which has a past and will have a future. Let us grant for a…