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The Drive Interview with Peter Attia

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is There a Language?

Language is the basis for communicating anything of substance to any one else, and storing a kind of cultural memory. It's something that i think other species probably have in a very primitive form that is not associated with conscious thought. I think that a dog, for instance, learns various associations with stimuli, ather pavlovian responses that these animals can experience,. yes and t an ape. And they recognize people. Obviously, a tha, they recognize people, arguably better than any other species other than than the human. So they can have real relationships. But all that could be pre conscious to a dog. Im just trying to articulate the concept of time, you know, the concept of a

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