Andrew Fildes wrote:
> So much so that their understanding of the world has an additional dimension.
> On entering a room they can not only see who is there but who was there up to
> a couple of days ago - they can scent map a space. The world must look very
> different indeed to a dog. The philosopher Nagel wrote on the world as
> understood by a bat but that
> 'seen' by a dog or rat would be equally strange to us.
>
One of the many pleasures of Oliver Sack's wonderful book "The Man who
Mistook he Wife for a Hat" is the chapter "The Dog Beneath the Skin".
Although the sense of smell involved was less poerful thatn that of a
dog, the description may bbe better, as it is written by aomeone who had
the experience directly.
I was less enchanted by some of his later books, but highly recommend
this one.
Moose
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