[lbo-talk] Blue Dogs cashing in

Alan Rudy alan.rudy at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 09:33:23 PDT 2009


On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>wrote:


>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heTORvEyVKE&feature=PlayList&p=7D168F167A5398FB&index=0&playnext=1
>
> --- On Mon, 8/10/09, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote:
> All_ human languages and
> moralities, whatever their differences, have symboling and abstract
> principles, and no other species have this.
>

Chris, I'd expect that Charles' quite correct response would be that human beings taught Koko and that - at least as far as I know - gorillas, etc., have not developed such symbolic modes of representation on their own, even if they have the capacity to be taught and use rudimentary versions of human languages.



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