Sentences with phrase «nonhuman animal experience»

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We do not simply create the nonhuman realities — plants, animals, and inorganic materials — that we interpret; rather we experience these realities as given to us for interpretation, and in their givenness values are disclosed.

He adds that the scientists unwilling to attribute intentionality to animals are generally those with little direct experience with the behavior of nonhuman primates (DNCC 221).

We have seen that research in nonhuman experience corroborates Whitehead's epistemological scheme in which perception takes the two forms of causal efficacy and presentational immediacy, propositions and concepts are primarily nonlinguistic, feeling is the dominant mode of world - and self - disclosure, and animals experience both morally and aesthetically.

This lack of interest in the subjective experience of nonhuman animals seems characteristic of other deep ecologists as well.

We are nothing apart from what our moments of living contribute to future life, and this means to some or all of the following: our own future experiences; future experiences of other human beings, nonhuman animals, or plants; divine experience, this last contribution containing all the value whatsoever that our moments can have.

Biologists disagree about the nature of emotions in nonhuman animals, and especially whether they consciously experience their emotions.

He saw that emotions were experienced by the animals; the difference between humans and nonhuman animals emotions not in kind but in degree.