We’re certainly capable of empathy toward other animals and we can know about their worlds in some ways. But whether by way of our imagination or by careful study all those ways by which we can know another animal are human ways. We can find out what their concerns seem to revolve around but we do so once removed, experiencing what it’s like to be a human imagining he was a lion. Our home base for all experience is human. Doesn’t mean the effort isn’t worth it and the desire to know what it’s like to be all those things is certainly human.
You know, if there is any more interest in discussing Mitchell’s response to that Wittgenstein inspired comic, perhaps some kind mod would like to give it its own thread? Otherwise we are in danger of losing track of this thread’s very important mission, namely showing that people interested science and religion are capable of laughing at themselves.