(sadness, anger, pride, happiness, guilt, regret etc.) but are unable to read and wright?
2006-09-11 05:48:31 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
write (bad spelling sorry)
2006-09-11 05:49:02 · update #1
Why shouldnt they share the same emotions? We're all animals at different levels of intelligence. As for reading and writing, their brains are not set up for the kind of analysis that reading requires and they physically cannot write.
2006-09-11 05:51:16 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I took a lot of biology classes as I have always loved animals and one of the things the instructors always said was don't anthropomorphise. Well after being around more and more different animals I found that philosophy to be lacking. Sure in animals with totally different brain structure you can't assume what they feel but in animals with similar brains to ours why not think they could have the same emotions we do. We are not that special in the animal kingdom to assume only we can feel love, sadness or happiness.
2006-09-11 06:49:54 · answer #2 · answered by Sage Bluestorm 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes they are special animals with a high level of intelligence. I dont know about guilt and regret but they do feel all the other emotions that you mentioned in your questions. All animals speak the language of love.
2006-09-11 06:16:06 · answer #3 · answered by ash_m_79 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello Paradox--the reason dogs are so like humans is because they have identified with humans completely. Dogs have a strong need for affiliation. Dogs are the only animal, in my estimation, that can even be evil. They are also judgmental, belligerent, greedy and sexually perverted. Dogs are what the humans they hang out with are. There are also religious fanatic dogs that condemn others to Hellfire. I have met them.
AND there are sweet dogs owned by sweet people.
2006-09-11 05:56:06 · answer #4 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What makes you think dogs DO share those emotions? Or that they don't? Since they can't communicate, how would you know either way?
They're mammals (like us), and so have *some* similar brain structures and reactions to humans. That's it. Emotions are combinations of instinctual hard-wiring and learned responses to stimuli, and many mammals have both instinct and the ability to learn just like us...just biology, nothing more. They can't read and write because their brains didn't evolve the ability to do so -- it wasn't needed for them to survive, multiply, and thrive.
2006-09-11 06:00:16 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
How about awe or reverie? Not sure they do.
But the human nervous system allows the hard wired responses of lower life forms to be seperated and reorganuized in an extraordinary number of novel ways, allowing behaviors that simply are not accessible otherwise.
2006-09-11 05:53:30 · answer #6 · answered by neil s 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dogs do what benefits them. If it also happens to make a person feel good, well, that's just not something that Fido took into consideration.
Dog's do not feel love; they feel loyalty.
Dogs do not have compassion, yet they sense sadness and illness.
That's just the way God made them.
2006-09-11 05:59:27 · answer #7 · answered by Bob L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well,they say dogs have the mind of a 3 yr.old,and they've always been receptive to us because like us they have to have a leader just as a child would. even tho they live by instinct they're still pack animals. and there always has 2 be a leader of a pack.
2006-09-11 05:58:49 · answer #8 · answered by Deep Purple 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Alright, dogs cannot write. But maybe they can read and nobody is aware of this yet?
Maybe dogs are about to be the next dominant species on Earth? Maybe they are the origin of the worldwide conspiracy?!?
2006-09-11 05:52:31 · answer #9 · answered by Axel ∇ 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
all animals have feelings just like humans
they love,hate,fear,...............
but dogs have lived with people in their homes and they are the best friend of the man so they was touched by humans behavior
2006-09-11 05:59:47 · answer #10 · answered by pal_guy_h 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋