• FfaerieOxide@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    Humans, unlike the animals that human keep as pets, are capable of complex speech,

    Are you assuming pet animal speech is not complex because you can’t understand it?

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      8 months ago

      No, I’m suggesting it’s not complex because they don’t have brains set up for it. That isn’t to say that animals don’t communicate, they do, but the concepts one can convey via their communication styles have limits

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        No, I’m suggesting it’s not complex because they don’t have brains set up for it. That isn’t to say that animals don’t communicate, they do, but the concepts one can convey via their communication styles have limits

        The concepts we can comprehend, surely.

        Maybe dogs convey the equivalent to the works of 樂天 to one another via smells.