"[...] I think an explicitly anthropomorphic approach is unsatisfactory, and worth reconsidering. If body and environment form constituent parts of what we call 'mind,' it becomes very difficult to see how other animals, with other kinds of bodies, living in other kinds of environments, will 'mind' in ways sufficiently like our own to permit the attribution of humanlike mental states. After all, if the ideas of the umwelt, Gibson’s ecological theory, and embodied sensorimotor theories have something going for them, then we have to accept that we don’t see the 'world-as-it-really-is'; we see it only as it reflects our human needs and physical capacities." (p. 223)


from:
Barrett, L. (2011). Beyond the brain: How body and environment shape animal and human minds. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.