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That’s a very Cartesian world view on biology, luckily abandoned a long time ago. Animals where merely automatons and scientists dissecting dogs alive could gle
by sovande 8y ago
That’s a very Cartesian world view on biology, luckily abandoned a long time ago. Animals where merely automatons and scientists dissecting dogs alive could gleefully ignore their cries as nothing more than automatic response stimuli. Today we know that physiologically humans are not very different from other mammals, even if we want to be. We all have a limbic system and that means we all have the same emotions. Animals have feelings and emotions. When things happen to them, they react with emotions be it sorrow, anger, happiness, fear.
- darkerside 8y agoWhat other animals have a limbic system. Are some species' more developed than others or are the base components the same in every species that has one?
- robbiep 8y agoCarl Segan at the end of The Demon haunted World talks extensively about this mechanistic worldview, where animals were once thought of as clockwork. I’d just note that your comment reads a bit like I endorse this view - whereas the intention of my post was to refute it. Perhaps you meant to reply to my parent?
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- sovande 8y agoYes, sorry. I managed to click on the wrong link in the HN iOS app.
- antidesitter 8y agoWhat you’re claiming of the comment you replied to is the complete opposite of what it states.
- brennebeck 8y agoExactly. The op is essentially agreeing with the gp, but seems to be saying that the op’s view was ‘luckily abandoned a long time ago.’