Are There Animals That Have Human Level Cognition?

Philip: What would the implications be in terms of philosophy, theology and morality if animals other than humans were discovered to be sapient? robert: This is something i don't think is going to happen here on earth. If someone took a chimpanzee and uplifted it to human level cognition, i would say that number one, shouldn't be done. And so we would have to treat uplifted cympanzees, or uplifted dolphins or whales as beings that have the same kind of rights that humans do - even though they 're not humans. Also, depending on their dispositions, would get into, ok, do we evangelize them now? That's something i