What might Sacks's essay add to Charles Siebert's caJJ for a new sense of kinship with animals? Given the evidence that Sacks presents, is there any unjversaJJy human way of perceiving the world, or...

What might Sacks's essay add to Charles Siebert's caJJ for a new sense of kinship with animals? Given the evidence that Sacks presents, is there any unjversaJJy human way of perceiving the world, or are the mental lives of Ho1111> sapiens far more diverse than we might assume? Is it possible that some human beings might have mencaJ lives closer to those of elephants than to the mental lives of other humans? If traumatized elephants respond to therapies devised for the treatment of people, does it become impossible co sustain a distinction between the humau and the attimaJ? The tem1s 1-fonio sapie11s and Loxodo11ta Afrirn11a (African elephanrs) describe two different species belonging to two different orders and families, bur are such distinctions important when it comes to the ways intelligent minds perceive their reaJity?