Reply To: Language and consciencous
@Unseen – Just a grunt or maybe a middle finger? I can’t see any way other than body language. I imagine that body size might make a difference. I really don’t know. I have seen animals react and size doesn’t seem to matter. How could one communicate any concept without language?
If you’re communicating anything, then by some definition there is at least a primitive language. Thus, even insects can have a language, as when bees communicate information through a “dance.” They can tell fellow bees where to find an untapped pollen resource by specifying direction and distance and perhaps even more, such as what sort of flower to be looking for. Bees appear to be able to convey much more information than even creatures considerably higher on the evolutionary scale than insects. How much information can newts, horses, even dogs convey to each other. I suspect bees trump them all.
