Honestly, these dogs might be the sole reason I'm not a legitimately terrible person
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If you want to understand people, observe dogs. How close to/safe with you they feel determines everything — the way they hold themselves, e.g. whether they cling to or flee from you when they're in pain. We build these lifelong trust relationships with NO COMMON LANGUAGE.
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How do you view the arguments made by David Deutsch among others that animals don't have morally significant sentience i.e. is simply genetically determined automata that can´t suffer?
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I probably can't tell whether I'm projecting onto them, but the truth is that I'm not even capable of pretending that I'm unsure of their sentience. It's as apparent as sound or color. If I've been fooled so completely, David might find it funny that a dog managed to do that
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For something as domesticated as dogs, a common language is secondary, don't they just need to read our cues well enough?
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