Full Idea
It is claimed, on the basis of empirical research, that the type of body that an organism has profoundly affects it cognitive operations and the way it conceptualises the world. We can't assume that human minds could inhere in wildly different body types.
Gist of Idea
Body-type seems to affect a mind's cognition and conceptual scheme
Source
E Margolis/S Laurence (Concepts [2009], 3.2)
Book Reference
'Stanford Online Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Stanford University [plato.stanford.edu], p.12
A Reaction
Sounds interesting. They cite Lawrence Shapiro 2004. It needs a large effort of imagination to think how a snake or whale or albatross might conceptualise the world, in relation to their bodies.
Related Idea
Idea 5724 Lions, foxes and deer have distinct characters because their minds share in their bodies [Lucretius]