Re:Animals are no less emotional than we are
by TheSpiceIsLife on Friday March 08, 2019 @06:22PM
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> A simpler explanation in my opinion is that it's projection.
For this to be true we would first have to invent philosophy and philosophers, psychology and psychologists.
So, I'm convinced it constitutes a simpler explanation.
Take dogs, for example, we share something like 84% same DNA. Great apes 98.8% or so.
This starts to slide in to this idea I have about how people say "everyone is different". No, no we are not. We are way more alike than the cumulative sum of our differences.
It would be way simpler, in my opinion, to assume other animals, at least some of them anyway, are capable of most of the same emotions we are. Then we can work out to what extent we care.
For this to be true we would first have to invent philosophy and philosophers, psychology and psychologists.
So, I'm convinced it constitutes a simpler explanation.
Take dogs, for example, we share something like 84% same DNA. Great apes 98.8% or so.
This starts to slide in to this idea I have about how people say "everyone is different". No, no we are not. We are way more alike than the cumulative sum of our differences.
It would be way simpler, in my opinion, to assume other animals, at least some of them anyway, are capable of most of the same emotions we are. Then we can work out to what extent we care.