Genkisan... You've summed up things nicely! bravo at each of your well informed and well articulated statements.
Grat3fulh3ad said:You prove that animals do not know. You were the one who made the assertion that you completely understand every aspect of what occurs in every different creature's mind, and you know for sure what they do not know...
The burden of proof is on you. If any animal can be taught the concept of mortality, do they become human... Perhaps you should research into Coco's reaction to loosing her kitten which she said she loved... You make too many assumptions about animals which are completely unprovable, and imho have not considered enough evidence to have come to the conclusions you have come to.
Previous studies with various non-human animals have revealed that they possess an evolved predator recognition mechanism that specifies the appearance of recurring threats. We used the preferential looking and habituation paradigms in three experiments to investigate whether 5-month-old human infants have a perceptual template for spiders that generalizes to real-world images of spiders. A fourth experiment assessed whether 5-month-olds have a perceptual template for a non-threatening biological stimulus (i.e., a flower). The results supported the hypothesis that humans, like other species, may possess a cognitive mechanism for detecting specific animals that were potentially harmful throughout evolutionary history.
B.C. said:Only humans would argue about somethin as silly as bein human! By all means, correct me if I'm wrong..... AAAAHAHAHHA! Take care.... BC
LMAO... you misunderstand...maryj315 said:The burden of proof is up to me what about you that is pretty easy
So what Head speaks their fore it is fact
Where in any of my post i said i completely know what is going on in every animals mind
In fact i even said you could be right i am just in this for the sake of a good argument i also said i am no expert of any kind just shooting the shit
The only person in here who has made himself a self appointed expert is you you were even gracious enough to pick a winner and congratulate him as if you were giving him a treat you did well Head has spoken
Perhaps that is what is unique to human......arrogance.
I was not being dismissive to any one and their beliefs and showed respect including your self unlike you
You need to be careful that you do not break your arm patting your self on your back
Mj
My dog can write his name on anything with his urine... He writes it in a language all other canine understand, and it lasts alot longer than the one you wrote in the snow... :wink:zomg1 said:i can write my name in the snow with my own urine. case closed
Grat3fulh3ad said:LMAO... you misunderstand...
The arrogance I speak of is one of assuming yourself above other animals, when in fact we are nothing but other animals. I'm not patting myself on the back at all, I'm just calling bullshit on the bullshit I see...
And yes, by saying that you knew that humans only were capable of conceptualizing mortality, you implied that you knew that no other living creature had ever had any sort of thought along those lines. The burden of proof is on you, and no repeated typing of the emote is going to change that.
Grat3fulh3ad said:My dog can write his name on anything with his urine... He writes it in a language all other canine understand, and it lasts alot longer than the one you wrote in the snow... :wink:
So now you know what my dog is thinking too... and what he considers artistic? You assume he has no concept of beauty, but you only assume...maryj315 said:You are correct except your dog will not write his name in the snow for artistic impression
Mj
Grat3fulh3ad said:So now you know what my dog is thinking too... and what he considers artistic? You assume he has no concept of beauty, but you only assume...
Also, I find it amusing that you consider snow pissing to be art