Inside the Animal Mind

[Heracleum Persicum]

AVaITA7eBZE

[Miss_Faucie_Fishtits]

5. The importance of culture is here taken to another ideological level, as it is drawn on putative distinction between the human and the animal: "Is this sense of bewilderment and anomaly and horror, the sense of alienness, placelessness, pastlessness, then, an exclusively human reaction, dependent on the reflective, self-referencing nature of human consciousness?" (196), Sacks asks. He answers that "both alienation and hysteria, in their quite different ways, depend on the presence of a higher-order, self-referential consciousness—an explicit sense of self—of a sort which seems to be present in apes, but not in any lower animals"

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/arizona_qu ... major.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/oliver_sacks_w ... minds.html

[Heracleum Persicum]

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5. The importance of culture is here taken to another ideological level, as it is drawn on putative distinction between the human and the animal: "Is this sense of bewilderment and anomaly and horror, the sense of alienness, placelessness, pastlessness, then, an exclusively human reaction, dependent on the reflective, self-referencing nature of human consciousness?" (196), Sacks asks. He answers that "both alienation and hysteria, in their quite different ways, depend on the presence of a higher-order, self-referential consciousness—an explicit sense of self—of a sort which seems to be present in apes, but not in any lower animals"

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/arizona_qu ... major.html

http://www.ted.com/talks/oliver_sacks_w ... minds.html


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Thanx, MFF, interesting


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[Endovelico]

AVaITA7eBZE

Absolutely incredible! I know people who would never find the solution...