Rainbow Sentience

Fragment from 2013: https://simorgh.de/niceswine/holistic-sentience-concepts [17.10.25], slightly revised:

“Joy” and “pain” are reductionary concepts about the rainbow shadedness of animal sentience

The independence of Animal Liberation

We – nonhuman animals and humans – understand the questions of LOVE and VIOLENCE. Whereby “joy” and “pain” are reductionary names for the “same” thing.

A liberation that depends on an approval by scientists? Or alternatively on a religious doctrine? Sentience can’t be only fathomed by suffering or joy – it’s rainbow shaded.

Sensuality

The separation of sensuality and reason is a man-made one. And tied inasmuch to scientific shortsightedness as to the religiously driven degradation of the earthenly [and thus meteriality „as such“] versus the notion of an elated human spirit [where the question would remain to me, where this spirit moves amidst „spacial and non-spacial“].

Both hegemonial-anthropocentric paradigms – be they through the lens of objectivism that works within an anthropocentric framework, or the lens of an arbitrariness in the spiritual spheres – as any severely reductive anthropocentric paradigm, deconstructs the holistic body and mind connection … for reasons, obviously.

The problem lies with our constructs, and not with animal reality!

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