At the risk of sounding like a mutual admiration society, (but if we don’t who will?) Lee has eloquently and concisely articulated virtually the breadth of the discussion of evolution, consciousness, and the phenomenon of the modern family dog in one article.
Again, we’re not saying that dog’s aren’t intelligent, we’re exploring the possibility of a [...]
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010Anthropomorphic "double-talk?"
Saturday, July 4th, 2009Dr. Beckoff in his blog on Psychology Today makes an intriguing observation that people are more willing to acknowledge that an animal can be happy whereas they resist or become uncomfortable with the idea that animals can be unhappy. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/200906/anthropomorphic-double-talk-can-animals-be-happy-not-unhappy-no
He believes that this makes it easier for people to allow substandard or even inhumane ways [...]
