Animal- Human Perception

It seems that everything in this world is interconnected. Everything is related and has a purpose. Humans have a purpose, though to narrow down what specifically that is would be rather difficult. However, animals also have a purpose. Animals have these automatic instilled routines that is the central reason for their life and their actions throughout the day.

Jakob von Uexkull discusses perception on a level that I never even knew existed or mattered. " Life is not just about matter or how it immediately interacts with itself, but also how the matter acts with interconnected systems that include organisms in their separately perceiving worlds." Uexkull later goes on saying these perceived worlds are incomplete. I think what Uexkull is trying to get at is that the world each human lives in is very different from the world another may experience. Because perception varies so drastically by each person, life experiences also contrast.Ultimately, altering perception.

The same goes for animals. Even though all animals are living and have some sort of role to fulfill their duties to survive and thrive, it is rather difficult to compare two animals of different species and the world they may experience. Uexkull uses the comparison on honeybees and their role within their breed and dynamics pertaining to the the upkeep of their hive. These honeybees go on a misson in search of necessities the hive may need. When they find what they are looking for such as pollen, water, or nectar, they return back to the hive and communicate through spitting and dancing to inform the other bees. This has become their life, and form of communication. This is the honeybees world. To maintain the nest and follow orders from the queen bee, since bees work in a hierarchy fashion. The honeybee's perception on the world merely consists on their ability to thrive which reflects the how well they have been maintaining their hive. Bees aren't concerned with anything else in the world, their perception is very narrow, Uexkull would say incomplete.

Every organism has an incomplete perception. Primarily because every role in life is different than one another. It's a difficult, and at times an unreal concept to fathom knowing that each organism has a purpose and the world they know is so limited, obviously the goes for humans, Uexkull stated that humans think they perceive so much, but in actuality doctors and scientists still see and understand such a limited amount of the world, primarily because we all have separately perceiving worlds that are inevitable.