sundray@lemmus.org to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agoDo animals have emotions like us?lemmus.orgimagemessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: vegan@slrpnk.netvegan@lemmy.world
arrow-up15arrow-down1imageDo animals have emotions like us?lemmus.orgsundray@lemmus.org to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square92fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: vegan@slrpnk.netvegan@lemmy.world
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 months agoEmotions? Sure. Like us? I dunno. Does irate fury at being woken up mid nap count as “like us”?
minus-squarestebo@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-23 months agothey obviously have emotions, just a bit less complex ones, but it’s pretty clear they’re not just robots
minus-squareMindTraveller@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoHow do you know cats don’t experience sonder? Did you ask one? No, you just assumed
minus-squaresundray@lemmus.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoTwo monks were passing by a little pond where there were some ducks, and the first monk said, “Look at how happy those ducks are!” The second monk said, “You are not a duck. You can’t know if they are happy.” The first monk replied, “You are not me. You can’t know that I cannot.”
minus-squareFishbone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 months agoThe takeaway from this is that half of all monks may or may not have duck telepathy, yes?
minus-squaresundray@lemmus.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 months agoIt’s a zen parable, so… yes.
Emotions? Sure.
Like us?
I dunno. Does irate fury at being woken up mid nap count as “like us”?
I’m gonna go with absolutely.
they obviously have emotions, just a bit less complex ones, but it’s pretty clear they’re not just robots
How do you know cats don’t experience sonder? Did you ask one? No, you just assumed
Two monks were passing by a little pond where there were some ducks, and the first monk said, “Look at how happy those ducks are!”
The second monk said, “You are not a duck. You can’t know if they are happy.”
The first monk replied, “You are not me. You can’t know that I cannot.”
The takeaway from this is that half of all monks may or may not have duck telepathy, yes?
It’s a zen parable, so… yes.