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Cats play
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Message----- Many animals play. Especially chimps. They
play a lot, and they're arguably the most intelligent non-human animals.
And when they do play, it looks a lot like fighting, but its not. In the
example of play, "fighting" is not fighting, but the opposite. The
chimps understand that their actions, while seemingly violent, are actually affectionate.
Isn't that enough symbolism to constitute consciousness - a
"knowing" of a "world" in which they created through
they're symbolic play-fight? And if these chimps are our closest
relatives in the animal kingdom, and we have language, and the they do
not, then might play be a precursor to language? Or, perhaps even an
example of language? Joe C.
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