Different in degree or kind: animal minds (Introduction)

by David Turell , Saturday, February 20, 2016, 00:47 (3200 days ago) @ dhw

dhw; do you or do you not agree that fear is a feeling that something bad is going to happen, and do you or do you not believe that animals HAVE (not just “SHOW”) this feeling? If you believe it, then there is no disagreement between us on this issue. - They do show it. But they cannot study their reaction as we do, debating flight or fight, or negotiating, or questioning why we feel afraid.
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> DAVID: The depth of emotion you are trying to give animals is romanticizing.
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> I do not recall discussing depth of emotion. Once again, we cannot know the depth of emotion experienced by our fellow animals or our fellow humans. We can only identify the emotion itself by our observation of behaviour, i.e. when animals “show” what looks like fear (as defined earlier) in situations that would engender fear, I believe that fear is what they feel. Do you or do you not agree? - Yes, review above the difference between animals and humans..