anthropomorphism
Animals make us human
There was a time when biologists so scorned the attribution of human qualities to other animals that anthropomorphism was seen…
Adventures of a hell-cat in heaven
Over the weekend I officiated at a funeral. Earlier in the morning there had been lowering rain clouds, but by…
How a grumpy llama became the third person in our relationship
Gussie is the name of a grumpy and ill-natured llama, her coat largely white and somewhat unkempt, and much given…
Why a wolf’s place is not in the kitchen…
The fad for owning animals from films is daft and damaging
The surer we are that machines can think, the less sure we'll be about people
Having written (for a Times diary) a few sentences about consciousness in robots, I settled back to study readers’ responses…
