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…so heartwarming… I love those types of videos.
If only every dog [and cat, and donkey, and domesticated animal] got a happy forever home.
Dogs can think. I don’t think they think abstractly. Do they think from their subjective impressions and perceptions? Yes, it sure seems that way. So, yeah, they think phenomenally. Heck, there’s even some evidence that dogs have what is called theory of mind. This does not mean they have a theory of mind in words, obviously. But they seem to be able to understand that others, humans for example, may not be aware of things that the dog is aware of, given the different perspectives (physical usually.) That’s a threshold children have to cross over to get to.
Yeah, they just lack symbolic language. Dogs are not born into a doggie culture of ideas and symbolic language and history and art and all that, like we are. All that stuff expands our experiences and allows us to develop the complex language that is required for what we call self-awareness or the kind of intelligent consciousness that we possess. Being able to think about things requires putting them into words, at least at a certain point in the process. That doesn’t mean everything is language, like the idiotic Wittgy’s of the world claim. It just means language is a tool for disclosing reality, in fact a way of creating objective measurements as ratios between things thus allowing them to actually be observed and then understood.
Dogs can see trees but they don’t really OBSERVE trees, let alone understand them. But if they had the complex language that we do they might. But most likely their brains are too small to handle that sort of information processing in any big or extended way.
Gentle reminder that dogs bury bones f’later and can be operantly conditioned.
Or, conditionally operated.
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Or, alternatively:
And the theirs shows interaction between the real and virtual dogs:
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Very briefly, tried to meditate simulating as digs may ‘think’ and imagine persons to whom I owe homage that ordinarily I would name, and found with practice it’s possible who they are intended to be, either with closed or open eyes.
Found it a worthwhile object of practice, without which a kind of transcendence of it is not a possible short cutted reflexion.
Sorry, I honestly did not intend to displace Odessyus, and will check if there is any significant sign for an improbable occurance there.
Odysseus’s journey, cyclops monsters here a tid bit:
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Ahhh, cyclops… poor petal, but cute with it.
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Wrong thread
But right thread though a flowing resemblance ( excluded) for now
Admittedly, as in Wittgenstein’s positive approach, yet, not through Sartre’s eye, 
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Concurrency with dyslexia and autism
Dyslexia
Main article: Dyslexia
Research suggests that dyslexia is a symptom of a predominant visual/spatial learning.[22]Morgan used the term ‘word blindness,’ in 1896. Hinselwood expanded on ‘word blindness’ to describe the reversing of letters and similar phenomena in the 1900s.[citation needed] Orton suggested that individuals have difficulty associating the visual with the verbal form of words, in 1925.[citation needed]Further studies, using technologies (PET and MRI), and wider and varied user groups in various languages, support the earlier findings.[citation needed] Visual-spatial symptoms (dyslexia, developmental coordination disorder, Auditory processing disorder and the like) arise in non-visual and non-spatial environments and situations; hence, visual/spatial learning is aggravated by an education system based upon information presented in written text instead of presented via multimedia and hands-on experience.
Autism
See also: Autism and Nonverbal learning disorder
Visual thinking has been argued by Temple Grandin to be an origin for delayed speech in people with autism.[23] It has been suggested that visual thinking has some necessary connection with autism.[citation needed]Functional imaging studies on people with autism have supported the hypothesis that they have a cognitive style that favors the use of visuospatial coding strategies.[24]
Art and design education
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Why do vampires avoid mirrors? Reflections on specularity in the visual arts Vangelis Athanassopoulos*
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I would say dogs can think but they prefer not to. so they’re not very good at it. or maybe its the other way around.
it implies that they aren’t our friends for nothing.
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I hope so. If not, man, that would be ruff
I love me some dog
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That would be ruff. Did anyone see the Farmer’s Dog superbowl extended cut commercial? Be warned if you have not because it will make you cry it’s that good. All the classic ‘boy and his dog’ formulas in literature and film are captured here in a meager sixty seconds. The only thing that doesn’t happen in this commercial is the protagonist and dog don’t go on an adventure down a river on a raft and they don’t get attacked by a pack of stray dogs which are ultimately fended off but the dog suffers life threatening wounds and so the protagonist holds the wounded dog in her arms as it whimpers. Everything else is there.
I won’t watch it again because I’ve already been through that, thank you. Just look at that face at the end when the dog is old and gray. Okay i can’t do this just watch the commercial.
Dogs make better friends than 99.99% of humans.
That probably passes under everyone’s radar, for really what are friends for?
Scientists genetically engineered a new species that is half human, half dog. The dog half was his own best friend. The human half was his own worst enemy.
With best friends like that, who needs worst enemies?
Dogs can’t write poetry.
Then again, neither can most humans.
As I forget who it was once said, these days even the illiterates can read and write.
… bbbbut can an illiterate not forget but but do for
Give
aaaand for sake
The allowances not given
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Maybe yes maybe no,
. And how like such for karmic blindness
That it once may have said
I speak no harm see no harm
hear no harm
For monkey sees monkey does
But was once a dog cousin(spelled backwards thought eye)
As now , I am become his uncle
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