Psychologist's fallacy

Biological Parallel

Honeybee waggle dances encode distance and direction to nectar sources, but the "meaning" exists only in receiving bees' neural processing—there's no semantic content in the movement itself. Human observers see "language," but bees are executing motor programs shaped by differential reproductive success over millions of years. The map is not the territory: our cognitive labels for animal behavior (play, mourning, revenge) are observer projections, not the organism's phenomenology.