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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: jbe who wrote (52039)8/19/1999 12:23:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte  Read Replies (2) of 108807
 
I suggest that the hinge here is "sapience". The tool-using animals are not sapient, even though tool use is often a combination of instinctive and learned behavior. Man is unique in that he forms and communicates a concept of self and other. This allows the construction of ideas and testing them against the measure of nature. The construction of cities and bombers and spacecraft is not instinctive and thus not "natural" in the intuitive sense. But with the legacy of the communicated idea - we can work together and teach our children in the traditions of technology.
The gorilla and chimpanzee are near-sapient; the language experiments suggest a concept of self and other. Dolphins - they seem to be a tantalizing red herring - pardon the expression - until we have a way of parsing their "language" the jury is out on whether they are sapients without hands.
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