@QuinticNon,
QuinticNon;170424 wrote:Honey Bees communicate the location, distance, and quality of pollen with the figure 8 waggle dance. It follows every protocol of every other known language. It conforms to all specifications I listed above. It also encodes for wind drift and maps out an optimum route to the pollen.
Read the Nature journal article provided above.
It's becoming common place to discover genes that are turned on or off between humans and animals.
Primate Olfactory genes in human pseudogenes. They are turned off, but they are there nonetheless.
The difference between bees and other animals is that they cannot create novel sentences or communication systems. For example, we can move a word around in a sentence (within the rules of grammar of the language in question), and it will still have the same meaning. A bee uses a figure eight to communicate some thing, but in order to communicate that thing again, it has to repeat the same thing; in other words, there is no creativity, and humans have this. And this is the problem with this view, according to the innatist.
One of the arguments in reply is that how can a child or a human be born with knowledge of all the languages' grammar?
I have read about genes being turned on and off, but it seems probable that if most living things had the gene for a universal grammar, at least more species than humans should have it turned on. Moreover, it makes sense that some humans would have the gene turned off. This may be the case with some genetic deficiencies in language, but I wonder if it is the same gene that has all the "secrets and rules to grammar."
These are some of the arguments, that I cannot get passed.