Question

Guys do we inherit from Object like from any other class (except of course that we don’t have to explicitly state that) or there is some special privileges to Object class and it’s not inherited as other classes?

Answer 1

No it’s the same. Here the excerpt from JLS 8.1.3:

If the class declaration for any other
class has no extends clause, then the
class has the class Object as its
implicit direct superclass.

Of course, Object itself is a bit special (JLS):

Each class except Object is an
extension of (that is, a subclass of)
a single existing class (§8.1.3) and
may implement interfaces (§8.1.4).