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Gordon

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Can humans ever understand how animals think
« on: May 30, 2023, 07:22:58 AM »

Alan Burns

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Re: Can humans ever understand how animals think
« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2023, 08:32:14 AM »
Fascinating article from The Guardian - well worth a read.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2023/may/30/can-humans-ever-understand-how-animals-think
Just read the first paragraph.
Perhaps the giraffe could smell the carrot within the closed hand?
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Nearly Sane

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Re: Can humans ever understand how animals think
« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2023, 09:11:08 AM »
Just read the first paragraph.
Perhaps the giraffe could smell the carrot within the closed hand?
You might want to reread it since you haven't followed what it was saying.

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Re: Can humans ever understand how animals think
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2023, 09:28:34 AM »
Just read the first paragraph.
Perhaps the giraffe could smell the carrot within the closed hand?

Try reading all of it, Alan - you'll learn something, just as I did.

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Re: Can humans ever understand how animals think
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2023, 02:45:08 PM »


I particularly agree with this statement from the link....'Subjectivity, what it feels like to exist, is so profoundly different from what we can observe scientifically that the two realms can’t even be described in the same language'.