This from Mr. Gaiman.
“Picked up my copy of New Scientist over breakfast this morning (which, along with Fortean Times, is my favourite publication) and found myself puzzling over an article that began
That a complex mind is required for religion may explain why faith is unique to humans.
Which left me amazed and potentially delighted that journalists at New Scientist had succeeded in interspecies communication to the point of being certain that dolphins and whales have no belief in things deeper than themselves, that ants do not imagine a supreme colony at the centre of everything, and that my cats only believe in what they can see, smell, hunt and rub up against (except for Pod, of course, who when much younger would react in horror, with full fur-up, to invisible things), and that there are no Buddhist Pigs, Monkeys or whatever-the-hell Sandy was."
Of course, feral cats and pigs and rabbits and dromedaries find their senses equally sufficient. (The last link brings up some interesting philosophical questions and I would have to concede that while the senses we use to perceive, measure and describe the world may not be complete, they are certainly accurate in their way and functional. Debate for another time.)
Read Futures this week, Heather?
I did! I liked it very much.
My cats constantly stare at some invisible thing in a very particular spot in my house. Freaks. Me. OUT. when I’m home by myself.
Oh – thank you. That was quite fantastic and timely.