Does language make us uniquely human? | Ray Tallis, Joanna Kavenna and Jennifer Ackerman
Philosophy For Our Times
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The Subjective Experience of Trees
We're always going to interpret things through human language metaphors. There's some wonderful writing on tree experience. But also, inevitably, there is this anthropomorphisation in order that we can even start to conceptialize it. The turing question of how much like a human you can be? Or alex the parrot, who again, that sort of question of er. Although i'm sure lots of really interesting conclusions have been drawn andyou no possibilities through those experiments as well.
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