Thomas Suddendorf
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“What appears to be lacking, even in great apes, is a motivation to find means to exchange what is on each other’s minds.”
― The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals
― The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals
“To imagine new events you need an open-ended system capable of combining old information into new scenarios. If mental time travel evolved for this purpose, then the price of this flexibility is that we may at times reconstruct past events creatively rather than faithfully—which explains some of the typical errors of episodic memory.”
― The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals
― The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals
“reason the current gap between animal and human minds seems so large and so baffling, then, may be because we have destroyed the missing links. By displacing and absorbing our hominin cousins, we might have burned the bridges across the gap, only to find ourselves on the other side of the divide, wondering how we got here. In this sense, our exceedingly mysterious and unique status on Earth may be largely our own, rather than God’s, creation.”
― The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals
― The Gap: The Science of What Separates Us from Other Animals
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