Do animals think like autistic savants ?


	Do animals think like autistic savants ?

pokkets

2-22-2008 1:35 AM

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pokkets says:

I'm sure the animals were thinking like this a long time before people turned up. So far the theory doesn't seem like it will be easy to verify one way or another, but who knows ? We are always discovering things we never expected to know.

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