[lit-ideas] Do Animals "Perceive"?
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 20:18:13 EDT
In a message dated 7/6/2009 10:58:12 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
pastone@xxxxxxxxx writes:
Burkas are designed to
eliminate a woman's peripheral vision so that she must turn her head
to look at something. This gives the man full information about where
his wife (i.e. property) is looking. WOW, those male oppressors are
diabolical shitheads. Of course, the whole thing may be an old wives
tale --
----
Also for horses. You put things so that you control their peripheral
vision.
I was reading Grice on "The senses of the Martians". This was an early
paper, 1962, before the Moon was walked. He imagines these Martians who have
two pairs of eyes ('one eye too many', he writes).
0 0
o o
/
U
With the upper 'eyes', things x (i.e. 'look') blue to them.
With the lower 'eyes', things y (i.e. 'look-2) blue to them.
And, they say, 'there is a world of difference between a thing x-ing blue
and the same thing y-ing blue.
Coady, in his reply to Grice, wonders if the Martians may be said to have
'superfluous' eyes? Grice says, "no".
In later years, Grice became more and more of a serious student of
etymology and evolution theory. The fish, for example, we expect, _see_ things
(as
we do).
Bats can 'see' with their ears, Grice says. But Coady notes that this
'aural' vision is not so good. "A bat will colide, almost often fatally, if a
building is built on his way to his cave -- their 'ears' don't help them
_see_ new things.
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The attribution of 'perception states' to animals is blurred by their
inability to speak.
Cheers,
J. L. Speranza
Buenos Aires, Argentina
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