What do you understand from this dialogue?

I think it may be that humans are quick to compare and think that they are above things to be able to do so.

Maybe, I know what I wanted to say but couldn't get it out right.

The man has too much of a worldly concerns, while the butterfly has none.

Edit:

Maybe this scene came from the Taoist philosophy that goes something like this:

"Once I, Chuang Tzu, dreamed I was a butterfly and was happy as a butterfly. I was conscious that I was quite pleased with myself, but I did not know that I was Tzu.

"Suddenly I awoke, and there was I, visibly Tzu. I do not know whether it was Tzu dreaming that he was a butterfly or the butterfly dreaming that he was Tzu."

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I understand that the butterfly has nothing to compare its life to, because it has only been a butterfly, therefore it knows nothing to compare life to. Also it seems that the man can compare his life to so many things, because he has been through many stages of life. Baby, teenager, now man.

Sorry if thats not what you were looking for, but thats what i got from this dialogue.

That the butterfly has never been anything else, so he has nothing to compare it to. The man responded, sort of incorrectly, because he has always been a man.

This was very interesting! Hope I helped :)

Man has departed from instinct, and has developed self-consciousness, and therefore is divided and confused, not singular in instinct. Butterfly remains tethered and connected to its instinctual being in the here and now. Butterfly does not question itself.

I understand the butterfly can't do anything or be anything except fly and fly.

I agree. The man does not know that things could not be worse. He speaks of his life when he bags on it. idk. words don't describe it . . .