Had the great pleasure of going to see Daniel Dennett at MIT on Wednesday
(short book promotion appearance), and one of his comments, in reference
to Jaynes among others, was that language may well be a prerequisite of
consciousness, but that the two do not need to be mutual. In my finite
wisdom I had thought something very similar. It would certainly solve a
few of the consciousness puzzles that animals and even AI constructs
might pose.
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