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TomMasz@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• TrousersMcPants@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah, why is it “just chance”? I don’t understand the idea that animals have no emotions, it’s weird.

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  • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We all know they do. It just makes compartmentalizing other… activities easier for some people.

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    • NielsBohron@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But they are not human emotions, so to assign human emotions to animals is a misnomer.

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      • daddy32@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Until we have better understanding and dictionary for their emotions, using names of human emotions instead can be a good approximation.

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      • RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How do you know?

        My pets express themselves pretty clearly, despite having much more limited ability to communicate across species lines.

        I feel reasonably confident in stating that I believe animals are conscious, just to varying depths.

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  • IMongoose@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Animal emotions is a hugely debated and studied topic, at least it was 10 years ago. It was a grave sin to anthropomorphize animals that have not been properly studied when I was in school. That comment is probably a tongue in cheek comment on that

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    • spacesatan@lazysoci.al ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ‘They better not have emotions or holy shit I’m gonna have [more] nightmares about what we did to those dogs/rats/monkeys’

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      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        it’s more that what we perceive may be not what animals feel, especially as cute behaviors get them more attention, it’s self-reinforcing.

        a cat may look like they’re having an existential crisis but may be feeling an emotion humans don’t have, like “ready to hunt but need to conserve limited energy while remaining very alert”

        a dog may look happy but actually is upset and hungry so is doing the thing that gets them the treat

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• lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The weird part isn’t animals having emotions, it’s that they seem to be expressing them in ways that make sense to us. Everyone who’s had a dog or cat knows they express emotions very differently from us.

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  • match@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    just for that I’m gonna push your coffee cup off the table (love you)

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  • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve had dogs and cats and their emotions make sense to me. They seem to express them in ways that make sense to me.

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