Sam Bostaph wrote:
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>I think this whole discussion would benefit with a complete absence of "anthropomorphizing." In THE DIFFERENCE OF MAN AND THE DIFFERENCE IT MAKES, Mortimer Adler pointed out quite a few decades ago that the human capacity for conceptual thought is not shared with other animals and is the distinctive mark of a human being. All of the outer manifestations of animal behavior do not constitute a basis for using words that designate human acts for other animal acts.
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Mortimer Adler, dead since 2001, and deservedly long-forgotten before
his death, is hardly qualified to appraise recent experimental and
neuro-imaging work in primatology. And as a serious Aristotelian, he
would have shunned such "evidence" anyway.
E. Roy Weintraub