Rick Harrington

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If chimps cannot form goal-based concepts, then necessarily, chimps are not naturally equipped to teach concepts to one another; that is, they don’t have social reality. Even if they could learn a concept like “Anger” from a human trainer, one generation doesn’t create the context for the next generation to bootstrap concepts into their brains.
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
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