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There's plenty of evidence, just not conclusive evidence perhaps. Birds and mammals both have REM sleep, the stage where we experience most dreams. This feels l
by stvltvs 2y ago
There's plenty of evidence, just not conclusive evidence perhaps. Birds and mammals both have REM sleep, the stage where we experience most dreams. This feels like slothful induction because we have almost as much evidence for animals dreaming as we do for other people dreaming, just lacking verbal reports.
- dooamq 2y agoThey may act like humans do when we dream, and their brain activity while they sleep looks similar to ours when we dream. But neither of these facts allows us to conclude that they're actually dreaming. The verbal reports are key to our shared understanding that most humans experience dreams when sleeping. We do not have this for dogs or any other species.
- stvltvs 2y agoWhen it comes down to it, we can't say for sure that dream reports aren't the unconscious actions of philosophical zombies either. If we're willing to accept dream reports on the assumption that other people have conscious experiences, then it's not unreasonable to allow closely related animals the same. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_zombie