Superprimate

Without cultural programming, they could never become symbolizing organs. They would become something else, very powerful perceptual-motor systems, like those of a superprimate, perhaps, but not truly symbolic.

We are not a whole new experiment in the evolutionary process, but a superprimate. A quantitative change in the evolving human brain, however, has produced a qualitative change of extraordinary significance.

Was I still in a close relationship with the biology that spawned me, or was I a “parvenu” kind of animal, a superprimate?

If you are looking about for things to even out the disparity between the brains of ordinary animalsand the great minds of ourselves, the superprimate humans, this apparatus is a good one to reflect on in humility. Compared to the common dog, or any rodent in the field, we are primitive, insensitive creatures, biological failures.