Status Updates From Speaking Our Minds: Why hum...

In fact, the experiment has been conducted, had been conducted before the book, and apes succeeded https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/lab...
How did this book even get published? Do we have an editor in the house?

More BS: “the recognition of informative intention… the critical test would be…: if an adult directs a request and this request is satisfied fortuitously, does the child/ape show any sign of understanding that the adult’s intention has not been satisfied? Such experiment has not, to the best of my knowledge, been conducted, with either children or apes. I would predict children, not apes, succeed.”

“Lines of evidence now point… that the core deficit in [autism] is not… social cognition… but… motivation…. This explains why some [autistic people] are able to communicate ostensively, yet… fail the false belief task.” Like hell it does: since when does having no motivation to tell you that p leads me to believe that ~p? And how does lack of motivation not predict lack of communication? This is BS