Does this seem likely? I would guess this is basically true for the sensory and emotional parts, but language and mathematical reasoning seem like a large leap to me, so humans may be doing something qualitatively different from nonhuman animals. Nonhuman animals don’t do recursion, as far as I know, or maybe they can, but limited to very low recursion depth in practice.
OTOH, this might be of interest; he argues the human cerebellum may help explain some of our additional capacity for language and tool use:
Does this seem likely? I would guess this is basically true for the sensory and emotional parts, but language and mathematical reasoning seem like a large leap to me, so humans may be doing something qualitatively different from nonhuman animals. Nonhuman animals don’t do recursion, as far as I know, or maybe they can, but limited to very low recursion depth in practice.
OTOH, this might be of interest; he argues the human cerebellum may help explain some of our additional capacity for language and tool use: