According to the late, great Alan Watts, every creature sees itself as human.
One of the first things which everybody should understand. Is that every creature in the universe that is in any way sensitive and in any manner of speaking conscious regards itself as a human being. That is to say. It knows and is aware of a hierarchy of beings above it and a hierarchy of beings below it. If you take such a tiny creature as a fruit fly which lives only a few days. It is aware of all sorts of weird little animals and objects and spores floating in the atmosphere which we don’t even notice unless we’ve got a microscope around [which] very few people have. And it criticizes them as being inferior animals and all that sort of thing whereas human beings are things that it doesn’t comprehend and that it is as much outside its. Intellect as a question is outside ours. And we see these far off objects floating in the heavens and we have only the vaguest idea of what they may be actually we may all be some kind of. Atoms within the hair on somebody’s nose. In another dimension, and all these galaxies being the constituent elements who knows? But there is, I think, a fundamental principle that everybody must understand in order to know what is the meaning of the Tao, or the Chinese sense of the course of nature and that is the principle of relativity. It’s absolutely fundamental to an understanding of Taoist philosophy of relativity. That is to say that wherever you are, and whoever you are and whatever. But you are you’re in the middle. You know pig-in-the-middle, that’s the game. And you have you see just in the same way as when you stand say on the deck of a ship and you can see a horizon all around you to exactly the same distance you’re in the center of a circle because your senses extend a certain direction in all directions and therefore give you the impression of being in the middle. Everything in the world feels like that, and also it has its own kind which look natural to it you see spiders and hydras, and sea urchins and so on don’t look very natural to us. We say well, I wouldn’t want to look like that. But they say when they see us, "Well what kind of an awful thing is that and what a lot of nonsense it does." You see if your dog watches you when your typewriting. Look at you and…Human beings, especially cats. Dogs are dogs have tried to catch on to human beings in a sort of a funny way, but cats look at you and think you are out of your mind You’re absolutely crazy what do you sit there all day feverishly pecking away at a typewriter, sa,y or doing something busy like that when you could sit on the carpet and and purr. You just, from the cats, cats point of view you don’t understand what life’s about all. But all cats in cat company they feel that they are people. Because the definition of a person is where you look from.