Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies.

David Abram
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Other animals, in a constant and mostly unmediated relation with their sensory surroundings, think with the whole of their bodies. There are many different ways that humans differ from other animals. For instance, we have the ability to think with our thoughts. We can think about something and not feel it in our bodies.

Humans can think about something all day long and not feel the pain or the pleasure that is felt by an animal's body. This idea of humans being able to think without having to have our body reactions is called transcendentalism .

Source: Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

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