Sentence examples for animal thought from inspiring English sources

Partly because it is embedded within his broader, functionalist response to the mind/body problem, Shoemaker's arguments against animalism and animal thought are complex (see sec. 3.2 for further discussion).

"Several authors claim that animal thought is limited or nonexistent because animals lack language," he writes.

IRENE PEPPERBERG Research associate and lecturer at Harvard specialising in animal thought processes, and author of Alex & Me Yes, humans do some things that other species do not – we are indeed the only species to send probes to outer space to find other forms of life – but the converse is certainly equally true.

What is self-knowledge but the epitome of animal thought?

This argument is very reminiscent of Davidson's (1975) argument against animal thought on the grounds that one must have the concept of thought to be able to think.

Instead, they focused their fears on a feral animal thought to be moving about in the attic and a silent intruder suspected of slipping into their home.

"No More Woof" is touted as "the first device to translate animal thoughts into human language".

You can know that you are not the animal thinking your thoughts because it is not a person and personal pronouns never refer to nonpeople.

In the pond, he was all animal-thought, no words, no self, blind panic.

Todd prefers to hang out in the nearby swamp, which is also Noisy, because the virus broadcasts animals' thoughts, too, but less intrusively so: The loud is a different kind of loud, because swamp loud is just curiosity, creachers figuring out who you are and if yer a threat.

In "Alex & Me" she has written a memoir of two unusual scientific careers, one of them pursued not exactly by choice by a bird.As a lonely child in Brooklyn, Dr Pepperberg owned pet birds from the age of four, and daydreamed about being able to understand animals' thoughts.