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I mean, you are basically saying that this man did not have a consciousness: https://neuroanthropology.net/2010/07/21/life-without-language/ https://neuroanthro

• pbhjpbhj 7y ago
  >her work with Ildefonso, who had grown up without learning sign language or any other form of communication. // It sounds like she's limiting her definition of language to "ability to communicate". Which I think it's wrong. One example is how babies can communicate with sign long before they can talk. When I learnt some BSL I was essentially in a situation like Ildenfonso (sp?) in your link. But, I certainly had language, it just wouldn't let me communicate in that situation, it essentially became a private language only for me. Now, Ildenfonso may not have developed a sophisticated language, but once the penny dropped and he began to communicate in sign with his tutor it seems like he already had a working language to match the signs to, that better explains - IMO - the rush to identify signs for the physical items around him, rather than waiting to learn as things came up.