The Gorilla and the Chimpanzee Can Learn to Use Grammatical Language

The ability to do grammatical decomposition is something that distinguishes the ability of humans and other apes. It's not symbolic depiction in the same way as we do it, he says. Cócó draws a dark like Jackson Pollock but you don't see the decomposition of the dark into limbs, and torso and the head; this has not been properly reproduced. He asks: What about the theory that symbols or language per se is the bright line?

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