Overcoming Bias in the Comparison of Human Language and Animal Communication
Machine Anthropology: A View of From International Relations
Rebecca Adler-Nissen, Kristin Anabel Eggeling,readwise.ioTribal: How the Cultural Instincts That Divide Us Can Help Bring Us Together
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What is unique to humans is that we use language to bind our own future behaviour so that we can form with other human beings bonds of mutuality and trust.
Jonathan Sacks • Studies in Spirituality (Covenant & Conversation Book 9)
Yet this new evaluation is still conducted through a myopically human lens. We classify the octopus as intelligent because of its ability to do human things, based on the accepted position that we are the most intelligent species on Earth.
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
In a paper in 1977 on birdsong, Peter Marler and Kenneth Marten suggested the possibility that creatures vocalize in some (yet to be understood) relationship to one another.