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It's worse and somewhat fascinating. Instead of acquiring human language which leads to normal human consciousness, she'll have acquired the language of the ape
by gfody 10y ago
It's worse and somewhat fascinating. Instead of acquiring human language which leads to normal human consciousness, she'll have acquired the language of the apes and presumably developed a sort of ape-like consciousness. In theory she would exhibit visual memory and recall superior to what humans are normally capable of (like the apes in this article:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279528/Memory-chimpanzees-far-BETTER-human-study-reveals.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2279528/Memory-chimp...).
Cases like this are so extraordinarily rare that we will probably never really know for certain what the human brain is capable of in these extremes.
- throwanem 10y agoMonkeys, not apes. English is a "language of the apes". And chimpanzees, who are in the same hominin family as we ourselves, are really no more similar or comparable to monkeys than we are.