Sanctifying Sentience - Vol VI (Jul 17 to Sept 17)
A collection of brief commentaries reflecting the innate Worth of ALL sentient life-forms, the current ways humankind is desecrating the same, and what we can all do about it
A collection of brief commentaries reflecting the innate Worth of ALL sentient life-forms, the current ways humankind is desecrating the same, and what we can all do about it
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Different does not mean less than ...<br />
(07/09/20<strong>17</strong>)<br />
―The fact that animals may not understand us, while we do not understand them,<br />
does not mean our 'intelligences' are at different levels, they are merely of different<br />
kinds. When a foreigner tries <strong>to</strong> communicate with us using an imperfect, broken<br />
version of our language, our impression is that they are not very intelligent. And yet<br />
the reality of the matter is often quite different ... Dogs and cats can communicate <strong>to</strong> us<br />
their desires and in effect ask us do things they want. So <strong>to</strong>o all other sentient beings,<br />
if we but attend <strong>to</strong> the same ... Indeed all other animals offer valid kinds of<br />
intelligences, which have unfortunately been under-rated due <strong>to</strong> our quite stupid<br />
human fixation on the faux superiority of language and technology.‖<br />
~ via Professor Maciej Henneberg (School of Medical Sciences, University of Adelaide)<br />
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