You know when you think about it, there's not so much that separates us from animals, chimps for example. Raise a child in the wild, and once they pass that critical malleable brain age, they can no longer learn sophisticated spoken language or socio-cultural norms and behaviors. It is then only really the *potential* that humans possess to become something more than animal, that separates us from then. Would a child raised in the wild then still have a soul, though he may operate only on primitive instinctual *thought*, if it can be called that? It is said that language almost defines thought because it provides an avenue for expression of fundamental otherwise inexpressible feelings. Thus what thought does a child raised in the wild really even have? What in that child can said to be *human" that he still possesses and shares with us? Yes I like using *s on occasion.