Summary Of How Forests Think

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The concepts of semiotics, trans-humanism, and multinaturalism are proposed by theorists Eduardo Kohn, Charles Sanders Peirce, and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro to examine how indices of modalities of ‘being’ are challenged by non-human animals. Through anthropological thought we are forced to question our current understanding of communication with non-human animals and the two-sided interactions in which we can only examine one side of. Best explained in the book “How Forests Think” by Eduardo Kohn, he states that in order to understand how insignificant our current method of understanding modalities of ‘being’ are, we need to ensure that we just don’t study the way people think about the non-humans, but the way non-humans actually think.
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