Two men walk in to a bar and talk about tonight's game.
What occurred ?
A lot more than meets the eye. A lot more.
Consider :
There is an consciousness within one ape communicating with a second consciousness within a second ape.
The content of the communication is explicitly about sport, however at the psychological level unconscious motivations are causing the urge to communicate ... both the sender and recipient of each communication do not know these urges, what is being communicated beneath the content, and what the effect is on the recipient or themselves. The consciousnesses are unaware of this.
A single message from a consciousness must be formulated using an faculty called the mind that uses symbols to represent entities in reality. The mind uses symbols to represent entities in reality because it cannot use those entities directly. The consciousnesses are unaware of this.
A single message is transmitted first through the biological senses then the outer world mediums before it is gathered by the biological senses of the second ape and passed to the awareness there. There is no directness of the communication and everything outside the consciousness could be mimicked and is therefore uncertain. The consciousnesses are unaware of this.
The consciousnesses sit opposite each other observing the other. What do they see ? They see their friend opposite, in the past. The consciousnesses are unaware of this.
They transmit symbols to each other. They assume the other sees the same meaning for a symbol, when if fact that might not be the case. The consciousnesses are unaware of this.
They look in each other's eyes and smile, they are enjoying the conversation. A complex species based body language is being transmitted and received. The consciousnesses are unaware of this.
Each consciousness feels strongly attached to his body. He looks at his hand and thinks this is my hand, this is me ... however his hand has been completely replaced over the last 2 years as the cells have changed. He is 40 years old now, this is his 20th hand. The consciousnesses are unaware of this.
Each consciousness feels strongly attached to his body. When there is damage to the skin he takes it to the doctor to get patched up. In actuality the doctor cannot fix the damage : the doctor stitches the skin together so that the consciousness's body itself can seal the skin at the molecular level. The consciousness says thank you to the doc.
As he walks down the road the consciousness is proud of his body and what he has done to it. Throughout his body countless millions of operations (chemical, physical, biological) are occuring without his knowledge. The body beats its heart, and breathes its lungs. The consciousnesses are unaware of this.