Zoomorphism is the converse of this: it is the attribution of animal-like mental states to humans. Zoomorphism proceeds by frst understanding what kind of mental states animals have and then attributing these mental states to humans. Anthropomorphism is the methodology of attributing human-like mental states to animals. Zoomorphism has been widely used as scientifc methodology
especially in cognitive neuroscience. But it has not been taken seriously as a philosophical explanatory paradigm: as a way of explaining the building blocks of the human mind.