Species-Specific Knowledge About the Environment: A Biophilosophical View
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https://doi.org/10.36311/1807-8281.1999.v1n1.704Resumo
The biological work of Jacob von Uexkull (1934) raised an hypothesis that different animal species living in the same environment would have different knowledge about it. He suggested that each species perceives the world according to the structure of their effectors. In this essay I discuss mechanisms in the animal brain possibly responsible for the "embodied" or "pragmatic" character of cognition.Downloads
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