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[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So you're saying dogs are incapable of acquiring knowledge or wisdom? They're born and die at the same intellectual level?

[–] Vespair@lemm.ee -4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] flerp@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

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.