Here I try to improve on the available answers to certain long-debated questions and set out some consequences for the answers. Are there limits to the extent to which we can understand the conceptual worlds of other human communities and of non-human creatures? How does this question relate to our ability to engage in other cultures’ practices and languages? What is meant by ‘the body’ and what is meant by ‘the brain’ and how do different meanings bear on the questions? The central answer developed here is that it is possible, given the right circumstances, for a competent human from any human group to understand the culture of any other human group without engaging in their practices though there are barriers when it comes to communication across species. This answer has important social and political consequences and consequences for the debate about artificial intelligence.

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交互性的Imogen：语言，实践和身体

在这里，我尝试改善某些长期争论的问题的可用答案，并为答案列出一些后果。在何种程度上我们可以理解其他人类社区和非人类生物的概念世界？这个问题与我们参与其他文化的习俗和语言的能力有何关系？“身体”是什么意思，“大脑”是什么意思？这些问题如何具有不同的含义？这里提出的中心答案是，在适当的情况下，来自任何人类群体的有能力的人都有可能理解其他任何人类群体的文化而无需参与他们的实践，尽管在跨物种交流时会遇到障碍。