The issue is sapience, not sentience. To imply that even a stupid human, a sapient being, is in any way comparable to the intelligence of a dog is offensive
I’m saying they’re capable of minimal animal-level intelligence, not human-like sapience implying higher thought. I believe this to be fact, not subjective opinion.
Other animal’s intelligence is clearly different form human’s, but every study they do on the intelligence of animals shows them to be more intelligent and closer to us than was previously thought. You assuming to understand the experience of dogs is, like you said, belief. You should have just stopped there though, because your belief is just that, a belief, not a fact.
I see the comic as an attempt to translate the existential stress a dog “feels” to the human experience, especially it’s intensity.
Because even with no language, no consciousness as humans have it, dogs do experience intensity you could measure in cortisol levels, heartbeat, eye movement etc.
The comic is useful for those who are interested in translating that to human experience. A communicative form that works well is narrative framing. It gives your empathy a correspondant in your conscious thinking.
Call me weird, but I will never understand the compulsion to imbue these barely sentient creatures with human-like sapience.
It is okay to love and appreciate your pet, but it is fucking weird to project human characteristics on them.
Your dog isn’t thinking thoughts like this. Your dog can’t think thoughts like this.
This is masturbatory, purely self-serving self-worship ascribed to an animal.
You’re weird
It’s… It’s a comic?
seems like you’re having a hard time
Yes, anything other than purely unadulterated gushing love and adoration of dogs and dog culture is automatically miserly humbugging, obviously.
No, it’s the general air of sociopathy and just kinda being an ass that no one likes.
Did you know that some humans don’t think with words? Do you believe they’re barely sentient as well?
The issue is sapience, not sentience. To imply that even a stupid human, a sapient being, is in any way comparable to the intelligence of a dog is offensive
So you’re saying dogs are incapable of acquiring knowledge or wisdom? They’re born and die at the same intellectual level?
I’m saying they’re capable of minimal animal-level intelligence, not human-like sapience implying higher thought. I believe this to be fact, not subjective opinion.
Other animal’s intelligence is clearly different form human’s, but every study they do on the intelligence of animals shows them to be more intelligent and closer to us than was previously thought. You assuming to understand the experience of dogs is, like you said, belief. You should have just stopped there though, because your belief is just that, a belief, not a fact.
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I see the comic as an attempt to translate the existential stress a dog “feels” to the human experience, especially it’s intensity. Because even with no language, no consciousness as humans have it, dogs do experience intensity you could measure in cortisol levels, heartbeat, eye movement etc.
The comic is useful for those who are interested in translating that to human experience. A communicative form that works well is narrative framing. It gives your empathy a correspondant in your conscious thinking.