Does language make us uniquely human? | Ray Tallis, Joanna Kavenna and Jennifer Ackerman
Philosophy For Our Times
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Is There a Consciousness Without Language?
Theresa: I certainly believe there is consciousness without language. But i was very interested with genifer's example of the huddle. One can obviously get extraordinarily complex co operative activity in insects, for example, bees who dance. Do they do this through co operating, or in a way of articulating the sit ion in their needs in the way that we do an omasy? In the example of bees, that's clearly not the case. So i wonder whether genifer on the spectrum between, say, human beings co operating with plans and architecture and sonasof or n rows over the contract,. All that sort of thing that we do when we're building something at one end,
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