Pereira's own mechanistic account of animal cognition presupposes that complex mental phenomena can emerge from physical organization, undermining the necessity of transcendence for human cohabitation.

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Animal cognition(as the main topic Pereira is explaining): The study of how animals think, learn, remember, and process information.
Cohabitation(as describing human relationships and community): Living together or sharing space with others.
Complex mental phenomena(as what the statement says can emerge from physical organization): Complicated thoughts, feelings, awareness, and experiences that happen in the mind.
Emerge/emergence(as describing how mental phenomena develop from physical organization): When something new and unexpected arises or develops from simpler parts coming together.
Mechanistic account(as describing Pereira's approach to understanding animal thinking): An explanation that describes how something works by breaking it down into physical parts and processes, like how a machine operates.
Pereira(as the subject of discussion about animal cognition): A philosopher who studies how animals think and process information; in this context, he argues that animal minds work like machines based on physical processes.
Physical organization(as what the statement claims is enough to create thinking and consciousness): The way material parts of the brain and body are arranged and structured.
transcendence: The aspect of a person under which one's belief is always in question and so not a secure belief.

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