"Are animals really solipsists until language allows them to share thoughts (p. 62)? I don’t think this adequately accounts for the emotional resonance and common fields of feeling that are basic to the biological and even physical world. If anything, the illusion of solipsism is a function of being able to linguistically reflect upon the cognitive states of others, concocting a “theory of mind” which overlays the basal emotional resonances or non-symbolic “mind meld” that otherwise dominates experience. Even in human beings, language only functions as a medium of communication because of a pre-verbal transcendental intersubjectivity or embodied sense of meaning''.

Segall