A person really sucks when they can’t breathe.
Somewhere on PBS (Nova?) I saw an show where they said only humans, chimps and dogs get the concept of pointing at something. If you point at something, everyone knows that the thing exists where you’re pointing, not at the end of your finger.
*Cogito, ergo sum.
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Dolphins have also been known to figure this out.
Cite: Karen Pryor, former curator/trainer at Sea Life Park, Honolulu, in Lads Before The Wind, her memoir of her experiences there.
Water is wet.
Cogito, ergo cogito sum.
Han shot first.
Fifteen minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance.
There is no universal knowlege. Everyone knows that.
I can tell you from experience that this takes a while for the youngest of our species to figure out. I can’t remember when my kids first figured out that I was pointing at something rather than asking them to look at my finger, but with my son (who is 15 months), it was fairly recent…sometime in the last 3 months I’d wager.
My favorite answer so far is ‘food goes in mouth.’ Newborns have this down within minutes of being born.
Win.