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 I've been doing a lot of thinking about what Deckett says about language and meaning, and perhaps we are superior beings because of things like language and our perception of meaning. 

If someone asked me before this class what makes us different from animals or bacteria I would have said "art". And now, I guess I would probably say the same thing, but I would give it a lot more thought before I spoke. I think that our abilities as people to draw meaning from something, and to be on a constant search for meaning, is something that makes us superior. Humans have evolved culturally as well as biologically, and our evolution into beings that search for meaning is what makes us superior.