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I would argue the same thing, but rephrased for "our species" as compared to other "social mammals" like cats/dogs/cows/pigs/squirrels/otters/etc. I think peopl

I would argue the same thing, but rephrased for "our species" as compared to other "social mammals" like cats/dogs/cows/pigs/squirrels/otters/etc. I think people greatly underestimate how much of our brains are still from the millions of years of mammalian evolution prior to tool-use. I think we all have mainly the same feelings and motivations, although obviously each species, and each line of each species, have varying proportions and defaults. The primary difference, I think, is that we can use complex speech to communicate these feelings, and use complex tools to manifest what we are motivated towards. I think this book about training dogs has a huge wealth of actionable knowledge needed to interact with humans...because while we do have other additional complexities layered on top of this, we also still have everything in this book. And the base layers (which we share with dogs) are potentially more "powerful" and fundamental to who we are than the final complex (and fragile) layers that we've evolved only very recently. 0: http://libgen.rs/search.php?req=perfect+Sophia+yin http://libgen.rs/search.php?req=perfect+Sophia+yin (view in the excellent SumatraPDF or your favorite .epub reader)

clairity 5y ago
> "...training dogs has a huge wealth of actionable knowledge needed to interact with humans..." yah, i couch this as 'dogs are first-order humans', feeling many of the same emotions (joy, pleasure, contentment, anger, fear, hurt, etc.) but more plainly and openly, without language (standing in for our more developed frontal lobes) as an indirection layer. that (indirectly) leads to the notion that in the best of circumstances, you don't train (or own) a dog, you develop trust (and a relationship) with them, for which they're willing to cede their independence to your judgement, much like humans and leadership. the leader has to prove their worth to the group, not the other way around.

clairity 5y ago

> "...training dogs has a huge wealth of actionable knowledge needed to interact with humans..." yah, i couch this as 'dogs are first-order humans', feeling many of the same emotions (joy, pleasure, contentment, anger, fear, hurt, etc.) but more plainly and openly, without language (standing in for our more developed frontal lobes) as an indirection layer. that (indirectly) leads to the notion that in the best of circumstances, you don't train (or own) a dog, you develop trust (and a relationship) with them, for which they're willing to cede their independence to your judgement, much like humans and leadership. the leader has to prove their worth to the group, not the other way around.