At the beginning

To understand where our intra-species enemy consciousness originates we must think of the conditions that existed just before the first humans arrived on the planet and how the advent of humans changed those conditions. Humans were different from the non-humans species in a very pivotal way. Each of the other species acted out of instinct but humans possessed what we now call intelligence. The irony is that intelligence does not look very much like intelligence.

Instinct is not stupidity. Because instinct is hardwired in every non-humans species each non-human organism instinctively knows how it should react to external stimuli. But this hardwiring also means that under normative conditions it will not do otherwise. This is especially noticeable with diet. DNA has prescribed what each species will use as nutrition when it is hungry and it will not eat any food even if it observes a different diet in other species.

When humans arrived they did not have that instinct hardwired in their DNA. What we call intelligence is the result of humans not knowing what the optimal response to external stimuli should be. Through experimentation and observation of other species they developed their own responses to external stimuli. Our history documents the changes we have undergone as we gained a greater understanding of our environment. At first we only ate what we could hunt and gather. Later we learned how to tend to crops. Our ignorance has been a great blessing. While non-human species generally respond the same way regardless of where they may live, humans are able to change their responses to external stimuli. But where humans have variety the non-humans species are always correct in their response. More importantly, intelligence could result in humans accepting a less than optimal response and believing it is correct.