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These headlines only work if you are stuck in a behaviouralist view of biology where all animals behave essentially like dumb robots. It was a common view in ac
by ImaCake 3y ago
These headlines only work if you are stuck in a behaviouralist view of biology where all animals behave essentially like dumb robots. It was a common view in academia until the 1950s and even later in psychiatry. These days things are much better. No serious animal cognition researcher today should be surprised by rats or mice having imaginations.
- WalterBright 3y agoEveryone who owns a dog knows they have intelligence and self-awareness.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Everyone who owns a dog knows they have intelligence and self-awareness To be fair to them, I've occasionally anthropomorphized fish and my Roomba this way.
- rhombocombus 3y agoI wouldn’t sell the fish short either. The more we learn about them the more multitudes we learn they contain.
- PretzelPirate 3y agoI find it interesting how we can be so aware of how dogs and cats are living being who experience life and should be protected, but at the same time, we ignore that cows, chickens, pigs, etc... all have those same experiences. We end up caring about dogs and cats, while paying for the other animals to be killed and torn apart. If the same happened to dogs, people would become violent. It would be nice if people held consistent moral beliefs.
- Vt71fcAqt7 3y ago"I care about what I like" is a consistent moral belief. The issue is that people don't realize that that is thier belief and create anlternative beliefs which sound better to them which then become inconsistent.
- aatd86 3y agoThe universe recycles itself and has no feelings.
- gameshot911 3y agoI am (at a minimum an aspect of) the universe and I have feelings, ergo the universe has feelings.
- aatd86 3y agoYou are still being recycled in spite of your feelings.
- lupusreal 3y agoI've met a few who don't.. I feel sorry for their dogs.
- spacecadet 3y agoLoL