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Gorillas have apparently never asked a question. They've learned sign language, so this is an interesting distinction. If they had the desire or ability to ask

• roceasta 9y ago
  Interesting. >They can’t conceptualize that there could exist a mind of thoughts and feelings outside their own. Presumably they don't have a concept of their own mind either. And this is despite being quite sophisticated and hosting a bunch of memes related to things like tool-use: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10071-011-0403-8 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10071-011-0403-... Whereas primitive humans painted pictures of themselves on cave walls. Which seems like an early attempt to explain themselves to themselves.