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• Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They understand it the same way we do. Just because we created stories and religion around it doesnt mean we experience it any different. They understand, just like we do, pain is bad and food and water are good. Just because we can write papers about the subject doesnt make the feeling different.

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  • hans@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I think you misread “mortality” as “morality”

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    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Not wanting to die/wanting to stay alive is proof animals understand mortality. Its the same impulses that keep humans alive as well.

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      • hans@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        how do you know what they want?

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      • hans@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Not wanting to die/wanting to stay alive

        two different things

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  • hans@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They understand it the same way we do.

    if you could point me to the animal cognitive-behaviorist paper that supports this claim, is be happy to read it

    I think you are making that up

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    • Rekorse@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Elephants mourn their dead family members. Is that a bad example?

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      • hans@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        this is not proof that they understand that they, themselves, might die.

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