Each species inhabits its own perceptual world or Umwelt, not a shared reality

Evidence

18 Unnoticed Lebenswelt: Husserl, Crisis, 123–4; see also D. Moran, Husserl’s Crisis of the European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: an introduction (Cambridge & New York: CUP, 2012), 178–217. Husserl’s analysis has a lot in common with that of sociologists such as Max Weber and W. I. Thomas, as well as Alfred Schulz, who later wrote an eloquent essay about disruptions to the ‘world’ of a stranger abroad, partly based on his own experience as an émigré fleeing Nazism (Alfred Schutz, ‘The Stranger: an essay in social psychology’, American Journal of Sociology, 49(6) (May 1944), 499–507. Husserl may also have been influenced by the ethologist Jakob von Uexküll, who wrote of the Umwelt or environment experienced by different species. A dog, for example, has a world rich in smells but not in colours. J. von Uexküll, Theoretical Biology (London: Kegan Paul, 1926). — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1414

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the concept of Lebenswelt (lived world) and von Uexküll’s Umwelt, showing different species experience different perceptual worlds.
• XREF: The Umwelt concept connects to Heidegger’s being-in-the-world and to later cognitive biology (Maturana, Varela); Schutz’s stranger essay anticipates the phenomenological sociology of everyday life. — connects to: Senses themselves have a history and differ across lifeworlds.; Worldliness differs by mode of living, not by location in the world; Nature is constructed by the mind’s synthetic activity from raw sense perceptions — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 167 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Worldliness differs by mode of living, not by location in the world #corroborates (0.90)
• Senses themselves have a history and differ across lifeworlds. #corroborates (0.85)
• Nature is constructed by the mind’s synthetic activity from raw sense perceptions #qualifies (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 167
• Abstract systems do not colonise the life-world but interact dialectically with it #qualifies (0.70) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 347