Citation
Kiley-Worthington, Marthe (2016) Nonhuman mind-reading ability. Animal Sentience 1(2)
Commentary Type
Open Commentary
Thread
Stevan Harnad, Animal sentience: The other-minds problem
Abstract
Harnad (2016) is mistaken that humans are better at mind-reading than other species. Humans have context-independent language, but nonhuman species, especially mammals, have context-dependent nonverbal skills – perceptual, communicative and social -- that can be much keener than our own.
DOI
10.51291/2377-7478.1083
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