The New Science of Animal Minds
“Everything is intelligent. When people say they can’t see it, they’re talking about academic intelligence. They assume what they’ve heard in school about IQ and human intelligence is what it is....[But that] academic achievement, that’s not about survival. What I’m talking about is not academic intelligence. It’s biological intelligence....Every o... See more
Mandy Brown • Our words
Perhaps this is the Overmind of the species, or a kind of “mind of the planet,” or perhaps we have been parochial in our search for nonhuman intelligence, and another minded, but radically different, intelligent species shares the earth with us. I offer these ideas in a speculative vein.
Terence McKenna • Food of the Gods
our mainstream culture’s self-congratulatory obsession with humaniqueness blinds us to the vast amount of animate intelligence we share with our fellow creatures.
Jeremy Lent • The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find our Place in the Universe
What's an animal? It's a rolling conversation with the land from which it comes and of which it consists. What's a human? It's a rolling conversation with the land from which it comes and of which it consists—but a more stilted, stammering conversation than that of most wild animals. The conversations can become stories and acquire the shape and ta
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