Cat's presence is not exactly ideal.

Outside a barber's shop in Oxford, this little wooden mannequin held a tray with hand sanitizer on it.

I might have an idea. A different one.

Humans evolved from previous hominids in the primate group.

My mind feels like the littering of concepts and ideas is in a state of utter confusion.

I always feel like winter, the coming of winter, pushes me into a deep hole that I have to climb out of.

...to the squirrel.

Earlier this week, I had my first meeting with my supervisor, Dr. Ben Davies.

The Julia Monologues

Lucy could care about the squirrel. Could the squirrel care about her?

Maybe it doesn't need a mind.

I came across a philosopher called Lori Gruen who has entangled some empathy into animal ethics.

Actually, although I promised more animals, I figured you deserved a break.

I'm so sorry. You must be so bored of the animals.

I'm going to look at some skills which are different from ours, skills which approach ours and skills which may be greater than we assume.

OK, so I have a little tiny bit more structure in my thinking here.

Well, it's not so much a zooming out as a backing off.

I might use this as a sounding board to try to straighten things out.

I need to start by defining what speciesism is and to do that I will follow Oscar Horta...

It seems that's what I will be writing my first essay about.