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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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
Animals have no concept of tomorrow. Even if they can look into the future for a few hours, they don't know that they will go to sleep and face the next day. The pyramids show that humans know that they face eternity. Squirrels don't time travel, they are ruled by blind instinct.
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
Seems likely to me that only the squirrel's *genes* have "knowledge of the future," and the squirrel itself is just following its programming. Future-oriented behavior does not necessarily imply that one is conscious of the future.
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