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by ufmace 1629 days ago
This idea reminded me of reading this post series on brain evolution:

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/jbt562/what_is_...

According to that, the current best-supported theory is that the human brain evolved the ability to think and reason in in a modern way long before they started actually doing it. The ability to actually think like that is only latent, and needs to be exposed to "recursive language" at the right point in the brain's development to actually have it. So if only under the correct stimulus does the brain develop the ability to think, it stands to reason that they don't all work in exactly the same way at a biological level.