evolutionary psychology

[evolcon]

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I don't really have much to say on the subject anymore. My thoughts on EP have been solidified since the thought wars of the 90's & 20's. I'm way too old to change my mind. the only reason that I posted was to see if the subject was still being debated.
We are simply evolved apes with language, but language has made an incredible difference, We now have access thru though to all that has come before us. we use language to access stored information.

Not discounting the human advantage of language but there is non-language stored/transmitted information laso

And I'm not sure what this has to do with EP other than 'Yea Language'.

My main point is simply that the difference between the human mind and the animal mind is language, and only language
A quick example, you may have seen the video of the crow confronted with a piece of food at the bottom of a class tube too deep for him to reach, there are also a few objects laying around including a toothpick type stick. Once the crow realizes that he cannot reach the morsel on his own, he cocks his head and looks around, he spots the toothpick, picks it up with his mouth reaches in the tube, spears the food, lifts it our and eats. (applause all around)
A very resourceful animal, but the difference between the crow and a human is this, if you removed the crow after he saw the situation, but before he had a chance to act, he would not have any memory of the problem, he can only operate  on the immediate sensory input, the  way humans recall memory is by using internal language, that is how we (humans) do it. no animal has directed thought simply because they don't have language
I can solve that problem, (the treat in the tube) if it described to me, using language, and I can solve it sitting at my desk at home, because using internal language, what we call thought, I can recall the images, food, glass tube and toothpick. and manipulate them in my mind, using internal language, because those images are stored in my mind. and stored associated with names. In short, no animal can solve a problem without immediate sensory input,. he cannot recall images because it has no access to his memory, his memory is only triggered by immediate sensory input. It is language that gives us access to all that is stored in our mind.