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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6991994
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Learning to sign is as you say learned behavior. However participation in a conversation cannot be learned behavior as the thread of the conversation has an infinite number of pathways it can take.


“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined” B. Disraeli

Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: cmcf] #6992004
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Originally Posted by cmcf
Learning to sign is as you say learned behavior. However participation in a conversation cannot be learned behavior as the thread of the conversation has an infinite number of pathways it can take.


Not true, conversations can be led. Lawyers practice it all the time when they can get away with it.


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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6992005
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Man, this is fun! What else you got?


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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6992031
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Lol


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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6992054
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Animals ......other than humans....are not self-aware. They have no idea that they will someday die. We have that innate knowledge. I think animals can learn, and certainly are driven by instinct, but I do not believe they have the capacity to reason.

Birds may be in a different category...slightly.

Look at the video below. Theses animals don't even recognize themselves, and don't have the ability to reason out the situation they are in.



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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6992103
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Maybe maybe not.

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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6992109
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Wow! I’m flattered.

However, the thread title “when YOU get it wrong” says it all.

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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6992110
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No matter what unique circumstances you want to look at animals doing it doesn't come anywhere close, not even in the same ballpark, as having the ability to reason at anywhere the same level as humans. If one approaches it from a scientific level and truly understand the capacities of humans and animal some would realize they arent using their full capacity in this conversation.

Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6992126
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Yes sir I agree but the original question was can a animal reason. Know one has said anything about reasoning to a humans degree. I really do appreciate all the imput.thanks to all.

Conclusion:
[So maybe they can, maybe they can't.]

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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: amspoker] #6992130
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Originally Posted by amspoker
My cat leaves me headless mice outside my door.

He must know I don't like to eat brains

Good one! laugh


I don't care how nice the hand soap smells, you should never walk out of the restroom sniffing your fingers.
Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6992133
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Originally Posted by nate
Yes sir I agree but the original question was can a animal reason. Know one has said anything about reasoning to a humans degree. I really do appreciate all the imput.thanks to all.

Conclusion:
[So maybe they can, maybe they can't.]

Valid point. My opinion as a whole they can't. But its truly hard to determine what is a higher level of intelligence combined with learned behavior and what might be a small shred of ability to reason. To fine a line to determine which side they are on.

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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: Trapper7] #6992134
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Originally Posted by Trapper7
Originally Posted by amspoker
My cat leaves me headless mice outside my door.

He must know I don't like to eat brains

Good one! laugh

My cat leaves headless chipmunks on my steps.
She must know I don't like brains either.
I think you're on to something there. My cat's a lot smarter than I gave her credit for. wink grin


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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6992141
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I have seen too many critters doing things that required, in my arm-chair biologist mind, actual reasoning ability. That being said, I believe any beast with a brain advanced enough to have a "memory" has the ability to reason. What is reason if it isn't a memory of things the animal has experienced and is acting on?


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Example, rubbing two sticks together they get hot. If I rub them together fast enough and long enough, they should make fire. Why? Because fire is hotter than the stickswhen I rubbed them a little bit.

Somebody did that the first time.


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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6992155
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What memory was used to build the gasoline engine? lol


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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: HobbieTrapper] #6992166
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The cold cold morning in 1893, when Rudolf Diesel couldn't get his car to start ?

No such thing as a dumb question.

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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6992169
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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: J.Morse] #6992233
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Originally Posted by J.Morse
I have seen too many critters doing things that required, in my arm-chair biologist mind, actual reasoning ability. That being said, I believe any beast with a brain advanced enough to have a "memory" has the ability to reason. What is reason if it isn't a memory of things the animal has experienced and is acting on?



Reason and memory are two different things altogether. What is reason? In it's simplest for it is logic; basically the ability to figure out "If this, then that." No animal has ever been able to complete this basic logic, no matter how hard scientists try, they cannot find any behavior that cannot be explained by learned behavior. That includes communication, use of tools, etc. Humans can reason, animals cannot.

Here's another one to chew on. Only humans have emotion.

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Originally Posted by BernieB.
Originally Posted by J.Morse
I have seen too many critters doing things that required, in my arm-chair biologist mind, actual reasoning ability. That being said, I believe any beast with a brain advanced enough to have a "memory" has the ability to reason. What is reason if it isn't a memory of things the animal has experienced and is acting on?



Reason and memory are two different things altogether. What is reason? In it's simplest for it is logic; basically the ability to figure out "If this, then that." No animal has ever been able to complete this basic logic, no matter how hard scientists try, they cannot find any behavior that cannot be explained by learned behavior. That includes communication, use of tools, etc. Humans can reason, animals cannot.

Here's another one to chew on. Only humans have emotion.



Bernie are these the same scientists that believe the world was never under water and carbon dates a 30 year old snail to be 6 thousand years old?

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Originally Posted by BernieB.
Originally Posted by J.Morse
I have seen too many critters doing things that required, in my arm-chair biologist mind, actual reasoning ability. That being said, I believe any beast with a brain advanced enough to have a "memory" has the ability to reason. What is reason if it isn't a memory of things the animal has experienced and is acting on?



Reason and memory are two different things altogether. What is reason? In it's simplest for it is logic; basically the ability to figure out "If this, then that." No animal has ever been able to complete this basic logic, no matter how hard scientists try, they cannot find any behavior that cannot be explained by learned behavior. That includes communication, use of tools, etc. Humans can reason, animals cannot.

Here's another one to chew on. Only humans have emotion.


C'mon Bernie, aren't you one of those guys that says big boar bear kill cubs so they can breed with the sow? I've heard that said by all manner of people. I think we are defining "reason" two different ways. I believe animals can reason, but I don't believe they have the ability to take it up a notch or two and, for and example, think " if I eat that cub, I can expect it's mother to come into estrous a year earlier than if I don't eat it". Isn't it reasoning when a bear shifts it's late summer range to take advantage of a good acorn crop, or other food source? How about the folks in Montana/Wyoming that say Grizzly Bear are habituated to rifle shots meaning food. Are they not reasoning that there may be grub over there where that shot just rang out? Is it not reason, or just memory? I say they can be one and the same. As for your statement about emotion.......I believe they have that too. Watch a dog you've known for years, you can tell when they are happy or maybe pouting.


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