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225 | Michael Tomasello on The Social Origins of Cognition and Agency
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is There a Difference Between Autistic Children and Other Great Apes?
There is something special about how human beings interact with each other that does differentiate them from these other great apes. So clearly, let's just get the claim very, very clear. There has to be something biological there also, because like you say, you can't bring the chimp into a house and raise it, and it'll just be human. And then I actually start my book on the evolution of human thinking with a metaphor. I say, it seems like thinking is something in the privacy of your own mind and it is. But it's like a jazz musician playing a jazz rift in his apartment by himself. Yes, he did it by himself. But he learned over many years
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