Re: virus: Language

Eva-Lise Carlstrom (eva-lise@efn.org)
Fri, 13 Mar 1998 12:09:17 -0800 (PST)


On Fri, 13 Mar 1998, C.A. Cook wrote:

> There are disagreements on this, and there is no real way to test one way or
> another,
> but I (and others) belive that prior to the advent of language, people
> didn't think.

...

> Furthermore, I feel that inter-cranial communication was developed
> before intra-cranial communication, and that the latter was a result
> of a short-circuit between the questioning and answering part of our
> brains.

That would be roughly what Dennett said.

--Eva