Comment on Isn’t the use of strict behaviorism to explain animals kind of obnoxious?

Custoslibera@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I implore you to prove animals have a rich inner world filled with emotions as you’re describing.

Observing behaviour that you think is ‘inner life’ is not satisfactory evidence to prove that the fish have a level of cognition required to experience complex emotions.

To suggest that a mollusc has an ‘inner life’ is unscientific and goes against our current understanding of living organisms.

People tend to way over anthropomorphise animals.

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