Now from memory experience is produced in men for the several memories of the same thing produce finally the capacity for a single experience. “The animals other than man live by appearances and memories, and have but little of connected experience but the human race lives also by art and reasonings.ģ : the teachings of the ancient wise men the bee, and any other race of animals that may be like it and those which besides memory have this sense of hearing can be taught. And therefore the former are more intelligent and apt at learning than those which cannot remember those which are incapable of hearing sounds are intelligent though they cannot be taught, e.g. “By nature animals are born with the faculty of sensation, and from sensation memory is produced in some of them, though not in others. The reason is that this, most of all the senses, makes us know and brings to light many differences between things. For not only with a view to action, but even when we are not going to do anything, we prefer seeing (one might say) to everything else. \)Īn indication of this is the delight we take in our senses for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves and above all others the sense of sight.
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