> >but I (and others) belive that prior to the advent of language, people
> >didn't think.
>
> 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.
I don't understand what you (and Dennett) mean by this; What does the
phrase "the two do not need to be mutual" mean?
--Eva