How children pick up a language: new review of Wolfe (Humans)

by David Turell , Friday, October 28, 2016, 14:41 (2737 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: Back to panpsychism.

dhw:It has nothing to do with panpsychism, which in its true sense entails all matter having a mental aspect. Forget bacteria. Do you or do you not agree that pre-humans, chimps, dogs, birds and ants had/have languages of their own which enable them to communicate information provided by their particular forms of consciousness, and that no form of language, advanced or rudimentary, would exist if consciousness had not appeared?

The animals above are conscious, but do not have self-aware consciousness at the human level. Our horses nicker 'hello' and otherwise communicate by body language, pinning their ears, wrinkling their nose, the look in their eye, baring teeth, kicking. Not much verbiage it seems.