Still, the likes of Kakama, Kanzi, Viki, and Koko show that even imagination, something that Carl Sagan wrote could "carry us to worlds that never were," is far from uniquely human.
It could even be said that it was Lowell's imagination that got us to the moon by 1969.
That will trigger the Muslim world to react against the West and that will start worldwide nuclear conflicts that even imagination will have a difficulty to describe.
The reviewer closes down even on acts of imagination that sustain the narrative.
These hollow-eyed scavengers so haunt his imagination that even when they're not present, he glimpses them out of the corner of his eye.
Are these not the eternal images of love as we know it, so linked in our erotic imagination that even if we've never had an affair in Paris, we know just how it would look, feel, smell.
His persona is so much a part of the public imagination that it looms even over a movie as devoid of autobiographical echoes as "The Ghost Writer," which had its premiere Friday at the Berlin International Film Festival and opens in New York and Los Angeles on Friday.
But the images he composes from his raw imagination are even better — that is where you can imagine him waking up from a dream and rushing to write down what he saw in the certainty that it will make a really wicked photograph.
This head can be that of a person, an animal, an alien, or even something that exists only in your imagination.
Once children learn that you are not going to tolerate mucking about and making things more challenging that they need to be, and that traveling isn't so bad after all, they'll start learning ways to manage and might even discover that their imagination is limitless.
