It takes two, Tarzan

Looking at my title you may very confused at what a Disney movie has to do with anything we are learning in Tomasello, but it will relate to my questions that I will pose later

Most of the posts have already explained the miracles of the nine month phenomenon and how it is amazing that we are able to gaze others as intentional beings. To tie this back into our computer debate we had earlier in lab, we can see how computers would most likely only interpret inputs and outputs in the same way a primate could. So although we may think that a robot is being able to become more like a human in it's ability to respond like us, Robots will remain in the realm of cognition similar to an animal. It's int resting how the two extremes from nature to science could share that aspect.

Now back to Tarzan. Since Tomasello states that infants have the ability to recognize and understand others with their intentions and not just the actions that they cause. He also states that children were confused when presented with just hands that did movements they were not used to. Since they could not understand intentions or be able to associate with the movements we see how it was hard for them to understand. Now imagine the story of Tarzan, raised by apes in a primitive setting. Since he would continually be exposed to responses from other mammals that were unlike his own, would he of not been able to develop social cognition skills? Would he grasp the self concept that he thinks differently than them or just adapt to mimicking their behavior and forfeiting intentions since they would not be consistent from each primate.?

What seems to be the conclusion is that in order to develop social cognition and think the way we do, we need to be exposed to others that are able to think the way we do. So if evolution was accepted, their could of been instance in a early human showing advanced cognitive abilities but since nobody else thought the same his cognitive abilities did not expand it's primitive form. In theory you would need two to be able to develop like Tomasello states. So therefore would it be true that the Theory of Evolution may be reliant on a scenario like Adam and Eve?