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Teaches my dogs what, exactly?

• xeyti 12y ago
  That's part of the curiosity / discovery point, here, isn't it? We'll find out exactly what they're capable of learning. I like to think of it like the direction we've seen with video-game systems for humans. We started with hand-held controls, with buttons, and we even still use that now. But it's only relatively recently that we've started using motion-sensing interfaces like the Kinect and Wii. And a big part of making that work is having so much information available to us about how video-game system / human interaction works. It helps us have a better idea of what might be possible. I think it's important to not underestimate the capabilities of other animals -- just because they don't have language and it often appears that we're much smarter than them, doesn't mean they don't have something valuable to show us. Communicating with other species and the potential to understand how other species process/understand the world is a fascinating possibility.