Re: haldane — ethology
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Frank Wimberly-2 on
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Good question, Dave. I have a lot of experience with rabbits and with dogs. I find the sense of a relationship with dogs immensely greater. Of course, I was shooting at the rabbits at ages 10-16. Maybe they didn't want a relationship with me. But I've also had more congenial interactions with rabbits. My impression is that their highest priorities are eating and eliminating. Dogs love to play, be scratched and petted. They get anxious when their people leave and ecstatic when they return. I could go on. I feel confident that dogs have a richer inner life than rabbits. Nick, for example, will say that you can not experience the inner life of "an other" because the only thing observable is its/her/his behavior even to itself. Unless he's changed his mind he doesn't think inner lives exist. A position that I think he has embraced is the idea that a person infers his own feelings by observing his own behaviors. I asked him recently what *is* that observer and he hasn't answered yet. Nick, I apologize for picking on you but you are the only one I know who has taken that position. Besides Laird. Please correct me if I have misrepresented your views.
Frank
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