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> [“What appears to be lacking, even in great apes, is a motivation to find means to exchange what is on each other’s minds.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-suddendorf/what-appears-to-be-lacking-even-in-great-apes-is-a-motivation-to-find/)

[Thomas Suddendorf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-suddendorf/)

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## More by Thomas Suddendorf

> [“The main benefit of memory for past events may be that it allows us to imagine future events.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-suddendorf/the-main-benefit-of-memory-for-past-events-may-be-that-it-allows-us/)

[Thomas Suddendorf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-suddendorf/)

> [“reason the current gap between animal and human minds seems so large and so baffling, then, may be because we have destroyed the missing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-suddendorf/reason-the-current-gap-between-animal-and-human-minds-seems-so-large/)

[Thomas Suddendorf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-suddendorf/)

> [“In all six domains we repeatedly find two major features that set us apart: our open-ended ability to imagine and reflect on different situations,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-suddendorf/in-all-six-domains-we-repeatedly-find-two-major-features-that-set-us/)

[Thomas Suddendorf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-suddendorf/)

> [“To imagine new events you need an open-ended system capable of combining old information into new scenarios. If mental time travel evolved for this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-suddendorf/to-imagine-new-events-you-need-an-open-ended-system-capable-of/)

[Thomas Suddendorf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-suddendorf/)

> [“researchers commonly distinguish the following memory systems: memory for how to do things (procedural memory), memory for facts (semantic memory), and memory for events…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-suddendorf/researchers-commonly-distinguish-the-following-memory-systems-memory/)

[Thomas Suddendorf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-suddendorf/)

> [“Evolution works only on how memory influences fitness, not for how accurately memory reflects the past per se.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-suddendorf/evolution-works-only-on-how-memory-influences-fitness-not-for-how/)

[Thomas Suddendorf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-suddendorf/)

> [“What appears to be lacking, even in great apes, is a motivation to find means to exchange what is on each other’s minds.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-suddendorf/what-appears-to-be-lacking-even-in-great-apes-is-a-motivation-to-find/)

[Thomas Suddendorf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-suddendorf/)

> [“Our brain comprises about 2 percent of our body mass but consumes some 25 percent of our energy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-suddendorf/our-brain-comprises-about-2-percent-of-our-body-mass-but-consumes/)

[Thomas Suddendorf](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-suddendorf/)

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