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> Also, I remember taking a theory of the mind course and learned how people whose native language didn't have words for things like other people's minds or consciousness couldn't solve tests on those topics IIRC.

Given that most animals can reason about other animals as agents with intentions, I'm not sure what people have been unable to answer. This also sounds a bit longer the discredited setting version of the Sappir-Whorf hypothesis (linguistic determinism).




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