“The fact that animals may not understand us, while we do not understand them, does not mean our ‘intelligences’ are at different levels — they are merely of different kinds.  When a foreigner tries to communicate with us using an imperfect, broken version of our language, our impression is that they are not very intelligent.  And yet the reality of the matter is often quite different … Dogs and cats can communicate to us their desires and in effect ask us do things they want.  So too all other sentient beings, if we but attend to the same.

Indeed all other animals offer fully valid kinds of intelligences, all of which have unfortunately been under-rated due to our human fixation on language and technology.” ~ via Professor Maciej Henneberg (School of Medical Sciences, the University of Adelaide)

Filed under: Sanctifying Sentience by Scaughdt