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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6992327
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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: BernieB.] #6992382
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Originally Posted by BernieB.


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


You can't be serious? You have never saw a happy animal? An animal that was scared?


Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6992422
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How about the animals graveside greaving for the loss of their master for so many years that monuments are erected to honor the animal. Many instances.


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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6992534
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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. [/quote]

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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Your describing pavlov's dog(pavlovian conditioning),not reasoning in the least.

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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6992556
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Only humans have emotions? I have a hard time believing that. Everyone shows emotions differently so how can you say animals don't show emotions? Tell me your dog doesn't show happines when you give them a treat? Tell me they don't show remorse when they're done something wrong?

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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6992626
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Is fear an emotion?


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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6992720
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I set trap, catch critter, dispatch said critter, skin critter, dispose of remains, sleep well at night, REPEAT. Maybe it is I, the wrapper that shows no emotions. Critters may remember things like where food is o what others smell like but it is all instinct driven. My 2 pennies.


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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: HobbieTrapper] #6992749
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Originally Posted by HobbieTrapper
There appears to be as many types of reasoning as there are stray cats in an Asian restaurant dumpster.



I heard a goodin a few months back by a German pyscologist when asked about the American educational knowledge;

He said, "They are a mile wide and an inch deep on all subjects."
What? He are not a mile wide!

Ouch.

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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6992751
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Instinct or reasoning ??





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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6992774
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A lot of good stories here, but I don't know if they are proof that animals can reason. I had a german shorthair when I was young, great dog can't remember a bird I knocked down that he didn't find. One time he went on point, I walked in and a quail got up I dropped it. Then another got up dropped it too. All in all 8 quail got up one by one and I had my limit. But they kept getting up one at a time. I went up to the dog, and I'll be darned. He had ran the whole covey down a ground hog hole and was leaving them up one at a time. But he couldn't reason that the limit was eight.

Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6992790
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Science says dogs have emotions. Breeders will say the same. Fear, joy and anger are the ones I see in my dog.

Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: HobbieTrapper] #6993679
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Originally Posted by HobbieTrapper
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If my dog can't reason, he has me fooled. As a matter of fact he fools me often.


You certain you aren’t fooling yourself?

Not exactly. Perhaps my understanding of Reasoning is flawed.

This morning my dog ran with the 4wheeler for quite awhile and was tiring some. He runs off the trail and down the hollow or whichever way his freedom takes him. A few times I noticed when he was downhill from me and saw my direction of travel was his way he sat and waited for me to get there. Is it reason that leads him to believe that he can wait there. He has never been on this trail before. Rudimentary reasoning? Not claiming he is Socrates but he suprises me all the time with his wit.

Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6993693
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There are many shows that shows monkeys using rocks to break nuts open to eat what's inside and crows using sticks to reach inside places to get bugs.

Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6993698
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I find it fascinating that we try to figure out the animal kingdom.
I wonder if animals do the same about humankind?

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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: coalbank] #6993707
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Originally Posted by coalbank

Not exactly. Perhaps my understanding of Reasoning is flawed.

This morning my dog ran with the 4wheeler for quite awhile and was tiring some. He runs off the trail and down the hollow or whichever way his freedom takes him. A few times I noticed when he was downhill from me and saw my direction of travel was his way he sat and waited for me to get there. Is it reason that leads him to believe that he can wait there. He has never been on this trail before. Rudimentary reasoning? Not claiming he is Socrates but he suprises me all the time with his wit.


I would say pack hunting instinct.


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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: HobbieTrapper] #6993737
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Ok another example. A good friends dog is gun shy. We were preparing traps one day when the sound of the snaps were too much for him and he dissapeared. Our search found him waiting by the gate to my place quite a ways away. Did reason tell him he wouldn't miss the ride home there? The second time it could be claimed a learned behavior. But the first?

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I would say the gate kept him from going on home or you have found him in the dog house.


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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6993749
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So is ability to reason prerequisite to ability to remember and learn, or is there no such things as "learn" or "remember", that everything already existed in instinct?

Around and around the little wheel goes what we don't know we suppose.

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No.


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Re: Reaoning power of animals [Re: nate] #6993830
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The gate was wide open. Just saying. Thank you for your reply.

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