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Animals have not only ‘shared the planet’ with human beings as we often hear on nature shows, which of course is a noble description intended to cultivate empathy for animals and urgency around their preservation. But animals are much more than this — more than just co-inhabitants of the world. In this episode, I explore the idea that the human mind, thought, imagination, language, and ingenuity are utterly dependent upon — and grow directly out of — our experience of animals. In fact, it is difficult to imagine that the human mind could have developed into what it is at all without animals. And what a future human mind would be like without direct experience of animals is a bleak thought indeed. Today on the Emerald. The Fauna Mandala: Animals, Imagination, and Consciousness.
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Animals have not only ‘shared the planet’ with human beings as we often hear on nature shows, which of course is a noble description intended to cultivate empathy for animals and urgency around their preservation. But animals are much more than this — more than just co-inhabitants of the world. In this episode, I explore the idea that the human mind, thought, imagination, language, and ingenuity are utterly dependent upon — and grow directly out of — our experience of animals. In fact, it is difficult to imagine that the human mind could have developed into what it is at all without animals. And what a future human mind would be like without direct experience of animals is a bleak thought indeed. Today on the Emerald. The Fauna Mandala: Animals, Imagination, and Consciousness.
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