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My partner wrote a very similar piece about how unscientifically most people (and many scientists) think about animal intelligence. I also recommend the book Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? to anyone interested in this topic.
Hard to make that argument, both cows and humans are 100% sentient. You're looking for sapience, which is humanlike intelligence such as wisdom.
However, it's hard to even say definitively that cows are not sapient. There's so much evidence of animal intelligence on a sliding scale with humans at one end of the scale, and you're talking as if humans were somehow independent of the scale.
If you're interested in this topic, I highly recommend the book Are we smart enough to know how smart animals are?
It's an incredibly deep investigation into the nature of animal intelligence and the controversy surrounding the science of it. It changed the way I see animals.
The book was Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are by Frans de Waal
You shouldn’t think it from the title of the book, but it’s actually a pretty objective look at the way delusions/distortion in the human brain (mainly re: idea of human exceptionalism) interfere with the way people interpret animal behavior.
I felt like the book was an attempt to “right size” the distorted ways people view animals.
The reference to dogs/cats hijacking the neural pathway for parenting was a really small reference in the book so I don’t want to mislead but overall I really enjoyed this book and was going around saying “did you know...” for days lol.