Untested Assumptions
Apr 01, 2013
Victor Ros from his web site: “The myths that man has attached to the horse, and the motives we impute to it, continue to form a set of unconscious and often unexamined assumptions about equine nature” http://equilibregaia.com/author/equilibregaia/ Why not examine the number one assumption? Than animals formulate a sense-of-self as does a human. The number […]
Making Sense of “Making Sense of the Nonsense”
Mar 03, 2012
System: 1) A complete exhibition of essential principles or facts, arranged in a rational or organized whole, or a complex of ideas or principles forming a coherent whole. Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary When a personality theory (one animal relative to another animal as in a dominance/submissive interaction) introduces a principle of energy in order […]
Why “Making Sense of the Nonsense” Doesn’t Make Sense
Mar 01, 2012
It’s my premise that whenever one tries to explain a natural system (such as the animal mind) with a personality theory (the animal as a self-contained entity of intelligence) one will always generate self-defeating logic loops and this will require more and more complex rationales to keep these self-annihilating principles from running into each other. […]
What Does Dunning-Kruger Have To Do With Dogs?
Nov 20, 2010
{Critiques such as these may sound like they’re saying something, but they’re merely sophisticated name calling, nothing specific and concrete is being debated, but I extend the invitation on the hope for such. And because this particular critic is arguing for a personality theory of behavior, they are always guilty of the exact charge they’re […]
There Is Only One Energy
Sep 15, 2010
Apparently Lee Kelley has the temerity to question Patricia McConnell, one of the leading lights of dogdom, over her methodology, the particulars of which she posted in public, in response to two of her dogs not getting along. In my mind Lee wasn’t “attacking” her honor, virtue, honesty, compassion, intelligence or integrity, he was questioning […]
Energy theory vs. Personality theory
Jun 18, 2009
Whether we know it or not, we all develop highly complex theories for animal behavior, most especially dogs. Even someone who doesn’t own a dog and never even thinks about why animals do what they do: nonetheless develops a highly elaborate theory for their nature and for their evolution as well, and without even knowing […]