
Inside the Mind
Naked Neuroscience, from the Naked Scientists
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Chimpanzees - Is There a Difference Between Language and the Environment?
Human consciousness based on human language is also based on biological differences in the brain I believe. We have this thing got in the speech and actually there's different levels of inner speech so when I try and articulate my thoughts there's some extent I'm drawing on this kind of inner speech but I think there's a much more fluid speech going on there. So that explains why there's not really been any real success in teaching chimpanzees to talk in the kind of where we mean talking in terms of language using concepts none of that's really been shown to be possible with any of the species. There are apparently important differences between the connections between various parts of the brain, including the cerebellum
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