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A comment on Daniel Dennett’s Science of the Soul. Parent comment

Re:Daniel Dennett’s Science of the Soul by tomlock on Thursday March 23, 2017 @07:25PM (#13945279)
And in the act of teaching Koko to talk - we changed Koko.
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Re:Daniel Dennett’s Science of the Soul by rspeer on Thursday March 23, 2017 @09:37PM (#13945866)
Koko did not talk. She imitated hand signs.

Her handlers were gorilla handlers, not linguists. They were willing to accept any combination of hand signs as communication, and they got to decide what was being "communicated".

The phenomenon was no different from dog owners who believe their dog understands English.

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