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		HarHarVeryFunny 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Language is not essential for the cognitive proces... Right, I think it's less than 50% of people that have an "inner voice" - using language to think. Other animals with at best very limited language, are still highly intelligent and capable of reasoning - apes, dogs, rats, crows, ...

mcswell 11 months ago [–]

"Highly intelligent" is not a word to be used with apes, dogs, rats or crows.

HarHarVeryFunny 11 months ago | [–]

If that's your opinion, then define intelligence in a meaningful/reductive fashion (not just "i know it when i see it"), then defend this opinion based on that!

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