My dog has 40 notions?

In Tom Wolfe’s essary, “Sorry, but Your Soul Just Died,” he writes about a gathering of scientists at the Santa Fe Institute in 1994. He writes, “[The human mind] will never have the power to comprehend human existence in any complete way. It would be as if a group of dogs were to call a conference to try to understand The Dog. They could try as hard as they could, but they wouldn’t get very far. Dogs can communicate only about forty notions, all of them primitive.”

What are the 40 notions?

[ul][li]Pretty smart dogs[/li][li]or maybe not.[/ul][/li]:wink: [sup]You can’t google everything.[/sup]

I don’t think Tom Wolfe understands the problem.