Similar to humans, the lovely Japanese macaques may have cumulative culture, the ability to improve on others' invention, to stand on the shoulders of giants. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-017-0642-7 …pic.twitter.com/WFNz8YfANB
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While many animals greet each other enthusiastically, parting rituals are completely absent in the animal kingdom, also hinting at a lack of developed future thinking. http://ishe.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/HEB_2016_31_4_5-14_doi.pdf …pic.twitter.com/jc86krn5Ol
Thomas Suddendorf has much more evidence of animals being "blind" to the future in his great book "The Gap". https://www.amazon.com/Gap-Science-Separates-Other-Animals/dp/0465030149/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1514483897&sr=1-1&keywords=the+gap …pic.twitter.com/fZXOKxZYDy
Are you ok there? Your line of reasoning is breaking up.
Remember when scientists said language is what sets humans apart from animals? And then it was tool use? And now....?
Macaques individually do not have notion of a tomorrow but within an intergenerational mix of grouped individuals maybe yes, and then they can accumulate some culture.
Humans’ brains operate in an internalized intergenerational group mode, leading to a sense of tomorrowness (and then, a sense of life full of meaning and hope) that allows fast cultural innovations.
But if squirrels gather nuts for storage, doesn't that mean they understand the concept of tomorrow?
I'm open to multiple views, but could it be an instinctual present action that benefits them in the future, versus doing it because they have an internal mental concept of "tomorrow?"
You are asbsolutely wrong. Other animals have a concept of tomorrow. Evidence here: [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12894243 [2] https://aeon.co/conversations/do-animals-think-about-the-future … [3] http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/07/ravens-humans-and-apes-can-plan-future … [4] http://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/orangutans-can-predict-future-experiences … [5] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4186238/ … You are spreading speciesist propaganda; not science.
Meanwhile I can't enjoy anything now without thinking, "That may be the last time I'll ever enjoy that."
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