@EMR @futurebird IMHO other animals communicate and coordinate just fine.
What's special about us is written language, which is tool use. That preserves and distributes knowledge better.
But word of mouth? Hmm. I'm less convinced.
@EMR @futurebird IMHO other animals communicate and coordinate just fine.
What's special about us is written language, which is tool use. That preserves and distributes knowledge better.
But word of mouth? Hmm. I'm less convinced.
@futurebird As a species, we mostly have advantages through tool making and use, so one could say we're generalists that are highly adapted to specialize.
But being so adapted to tool making and use would mean we're a specialist, specifically one that can generalise well.
I'm not even going to look for other ways to respond to this now.