> humans reasoned before language

That's an interesting supposition. Are you assuming language didn't exist before it was written? Language and meaning are, if you squint, pretty ancient and have roots in things like birdsong. It could be that ur-semantics predates our species as a whole.

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emp17344 3 hours ago | parent [-]

It’s pretty clear that animals that don’t use a system of language are capable of reasoning. No need to over complicate things.

	▲	pohl 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Good observation. I’m certainly not trying to over complicate things. That just tells us, though, that the bio-mechanical computation part is there before language, which I took as a foregone conclusion, it being meatware and all.