Matching Darwin's "Tree of Life," the "Tree of Intelligence" Comes Crashing Down

Freed from the constraints of naturalism (nature is all there is), the animal mind is a fascinating topic. Great writers have reflected on the waytheir cats think. The cat is a convenient subject for two reasons. One is this, no one advertises a common inheritance of humans and cats. We meet on equal terms.

That said, the most farflung outcome of the current effort tonaturalize the mind, despiteDarwin's horrid doubt, is the quest to map our own minds onto those ofprimate apesand other mammals...