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- noun environment — Alternative form of
Umwelt .
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What he proposed was revolutionary: anyone who wants to understand the life of an animal must begin by considering what he called their umwelt OOM-velt: their subjective or “self-world.”
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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What he proposed was revolutionary: anyone who wants to understand the life of an animal must begin by considering what he called their umwelt OOM-velt: their subjective or “self-world.”
INSIDE OF A DOG ALEXANDRA HOROWITZ 2009
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What he proposed was revolutionary: anyone who wants to understand the life of an animal must begin by considering what he called their umwelt (OOM-velt): their subjectiveor "self-world."
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But by suiting up animals with critter-cams we are mostly getting an idea of their vantage on the world, not their entire umwelt.
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To understand the dog umwelt, then, we must think of objects, people, emotions—even times of day—as having distinctive odors.
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But the trouble with anecdotes is that one does not have the full story of what happened, since the teller, with his own umwelt and particular perception, is necessarily restricted in what he sees.
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On top of that each individual creates his own personal umwelt, full of objects with special meaning to him.
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That kind of introspective exercise only works when paired with an understanding of how profound the difference in umwelt is between us and another animal.
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Since my guests may be less keen on the dog umwelt, though, I advise visitors to proffer a hand undoubtedly fragrant, or kneel and let their head or trunk be sniffed instead.
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In point of fact, their tactile umwelt is almost certainly different than ours.
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pspealman commented on the word umwelt
A term for one's 'lived experience' - similar to a world view but including elements which are wholly subjective and beyond communication.
October 1, 2008
manilamac commented on the word umwelt
Her work draws on that of an early-20th-¬century German biologist, Jakob von Uexküll, who proposed that “anyone who wants to understand the life of an animal must begin by considering what he called their umwelt . . . : their subjective or ‘self-world.’ ” – New York Times Book Review Sept. 8, 2009. Inside of a Dog, by Alexandra Horowitz.
September 22, 2009
AnWulf commented on the word umwelt
It means environment.
September 12, 2011