Kanzi's doll

Eva Ekeblad (eva.ekeblad who-is-at ped.gu.se)
Fri, 15 Aug 1997 20:31:15 +0200

At 09.56 -0700 97-08-15, Mike Cole wrote:
>The other day my 20 month old grand daughter looked in her dolly's
>ear and said, very solemly, " Oh, my, where did all that dirt come from?"
>
>Hard to imagine Kanzi doing that.

Hey Mike!
That's cheating: introducing language into the thought experiment!

Isn't the human propensity to Imitate in the Narrow Sense supposed to be
one of the preconditions for Language?

Eva
after the downtime
the weber freeze has thawed