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I think an African Gorilla can manage some of these.
Probably not.
I think so.
What about The Three Stooges?
Concocting meaningless questions is no great skill to have.
Why not?
It seems that half the U.S.A. is in the same boat.
There is strong scientific evidence that they do.
Not by human standards, but many humans fail at this as well.
Probably not.
A gorilla cannot contemplate the size of the universe, neither can you, and the degree to which we both fail is insignificant.
Gorillas can imagine things that don't exist, just like you. The gorilla cannot form a mental concept of a thing that is everywhere, and nowhere, omnibenevolent and perfectly just, etc., but that is no great failure.
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