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Elephants have a humanlike neuron count. The claim that "most of it is used to control the big body" is absurd, considering the fact that human stroke patients regain language skills faster if they learn to juggle at the same time, not slower as the theory of brain capacity theft predicts. Modern research on language acquisition shows that there is no difference in kind between language aquisition and normal associative learning, only a difference in complex neurological precision, which is exactly what the good neuron count provides. If he got the chance to point at symbols for words instead of having to talk with his trunk that like all elephant trunks was poorly adapted to human speech, he probably could have had a decent conversation. The fact that elephants of course lack the uniquely human naive indoctrinability may make language a bit more difficult for them, but not unsurmountably so. Elephants are probably the only nonhumans on Earth capable of investigating the causes of faliure, which is important for asking questions. 95.209.11.241 ( talk) 18:13, 15 September 2011 (UTC)Martin J Sallberg
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Elephants have a humanlike neuron count. The claim that "most of it is used to control the big body" is absurd, considering the fact that human stroke patients regain language skills faster if they learn to juggle at the same time, not slower as the theory of brain capacity theft predicts. Modern research on language acquisition shows that there is no difference in kind between language aquisition and normal associative learning, only a difference in complex neurological precision, which is exactly what the good neuron count provides. If he got the chance to point at symbols for words instead of having to talk with his trunk that like all elephant trunks was poorly adapted to human speech, he probably could have had a decent conversation. The fact that elephants of course lack the uniquely human naive indoctrinability may make language a bit more difficult for them, but not unsurmountably so. Elephants are probably the only nonhumans on Earth capable of investigating the causes of faliure, which is important for asking questions. 95.209.11.241 ( talk) 18:13, 15 September 2011 (UTC)Martin J Sallberg
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