Is Language One of the Requirements for Consciousness?

We've got up our best conception of the human condition, we can carry out experimental work. We can find what we take to be neural correlates of the things we're looking at. It's just all these things going on. I think we end up with a system that's kind of, if you like, sort of complicated,. it's just the way science is. Okay, maybe one more question. The next question on consciousness came from Kathakas Gutava, who says, do you think that language is one of the requirements for consciousness? Well, as you may have noticed, I'm a kind of an old-fashioned conservative. And I believe what was basically proposed by classical