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I get that the science has to be done to know for sure. But I feel that for this to be a surprising revaluation to someone seems to me to indicate a lingering o

I get that the science has to be done to know for sure. But I feel that for this to be a surprising revaluation to someone seems to me to indicate a lingering of the archaic notion that god created man in his image, and therefore man was different from beast. Just strikes me as an interesting cultural current. Perhaps the real role of science is to help transition between generations of knowledge. What is todays equivalent of geocentrism? What will replace it? It is unfortunate that popular writing on science is so hand-wavey. People get confused by that and start treating it like a religion. Surly if science has a better more objective way to see the world, it should be able to be made more plain. On the other hand maybe society needs a priest caste. Pardon my wild tangent, I merely hope to provoke unusual thought.

Hayvok 5y ago
> Knowing how dogs process sound could, among other things, help canine experts better train service or working dogs. This seems to be the real practical focus of the research. There’s no surprise that dogs can understand human speech (they obviously do to some degree, as do many animals), but rather digging deeper into the nuances so we can refine our communication with them. Training a service dog can take up to two years and an experienced trainer - research here might be able to shorten that time and increase the pool of available dogs.
lultimouomo 5y ago
> I feel that for this to be a surprising revaluation to someone seems to me to indicate a lingering of the archaic notion that god created man in his image, and therefore man was different from beast. I think a more interesting take on the article is that dogs do NOT process woofs like we, and they, process human language. It seems to suggest that there is a qualitative difference between speaking and barking, and also (as stated in the article) that dogs picked up a new set of language skills only by listening to us, which is super cool and in a way the most dog-like thing possible. In that sense I'd say that human and beast are proven different by the experiment.

Hayvok 5y ago

> Knowing how dogs process sound could, among other things, help canine experts better train service or working dogs. This seems to be the real practical focus of the research. There’s no surprise that dogs can understand human speech (they obviously do to some degree, as do many animals), but rather digging deeper into the nuances so we can refine our communication with them. Training a service dog can take up to two years and an experienced trainer - research here might be able to shorten that time and increase the pool of available dogs.

lultimouomo 5y ago

> I feel that for this to be a surprising revaluation to someone seems to me to indicate a lingering of the archaic notion that god created man in his image, and therefore man was different from beast. I think a more interesting take on the article is that dogs do NOT process woofs like we, and they, process human language. It seems to suggest that there is a qualitative difference between speaking and barking, and also (as stated in the article) that dogs picked up a new set of language skills only by listening to us, which is super cool and in a way the most dog-like thing possible. In that sense I'd say that human and beast are proven different by the experiment.