# What Makes Human Cognition So Different From Other Animals by Laurie R. Santos > “What cognitive capacities make humans so damn weird relative to all the other animals on the planet?” > **— Laurie R. Santos**, *2018 Edge Annual Question, question* ## Sources and Context - **Original Edge response:** [The Last Question — Laurie R. Santos](https://www.edge.org/response-detail/27470) — Laurie R. Santos's question in the 2018 Annual Question collection, posed rather than asserted as a conclusion. The Edge response page is the publication record for this exact question. - **Local archival entry:** [[research/Edge 2018 Full Quotation Curation|Edge 2018 Full Quotation Curation]] (EDGE2018-245). ## Related Articles and Collections - **Collection:** [[collections/Edge|Edge]] - **Collection:** [[collections/Consciousness Continuity|Consciousness Continuity]] - **Article:** [[articles/Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer|Technologies for Consciousness Mapping and Transfer]] - **Article:** [[articles/The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas|The Organic-Synthetic Brain Atlas]] - **Article:** [[articles/Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta|Mind Uploading and AI — The Host is Reusable and the Person is the Delta]] ## Related Topics - [[wiki/Nonhuman Intelligence|Nonhuman Intelligence]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “What cognitive capacities make humans so damn weird relative to all the other animals on the planet?” — Laurie R. Santos, 2018 Edge Annual Question https://bryantmcgill.com/simple-reminders-laurie-santos-makes-human-cognition-so-different ```