Re: A species without shared intentionality
There have been a variety of tests where chimps show an "individual" intelligence (e.g. figure out how to open the box to get the candy) similar to a two year old human child. On the other hand, they perform far worse in "social" intelligence tests (e.g. open the box after watching someone demonstrate how to open it). Humans are, ironically, the only primates that do much learning by monkey see, monkey do.
I've also seen tests that show even very young children can recognize that separation of their perceptions from others Sam knows where it is, but he understands Mickey doesn't know), but chimps generally can't.
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