If you'd read that section, you'd see the objection is that it's "clearly not animal intelligence". That in no way contradicts the idea that it is a lower form of intelligence, perhaps as low as "bacterial intelligence" or perhaps in between. Some people don't like using the word "intelligence" to refer to such low levels of intelligence, but that's a matter of semantics.
"Also, it's a fact that animals located on the same level are of the same importance (that's why they're on the same level after all), and since plants are all located on the same level (the foundation), then you can easily compare all plants with humans."
This ... I don't even have the words to describe the magnitude of that fallacy. Why do you think having equal importance lets all of them gang up?
Another thing: since your "all plants vs. human species" depends on putting humans on a level all by themselves, does that not in itself prove Kasz's point about how special they are?
Look, my bringing in domesticated plants/animals/etc. was purely to disprove your claim that no species depend on us, which is clearly false. You are now claiming that because corn is not a predator of humans it does not depend on us for its current "market penetration" of the world's biosphere, which is frankly silly. Retreating to a pure analysis of the hierarchical food chain ignores the fact that our intelligence has changed the game of by what means a species may depend on another. In that way you are actually supporting the idea that humans are uniquely special. (I should point out that symbiotic relationships between species aren't new, which your claim also ignores. That is another way a species can depend on another without being its predator, and in fact can be lower on the food chain.)
"humans really are quite unecessary to Earth's ecosyste" How does "more necessary to the ecosystem" equate to "more special"?
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