|
Primal or Equally Intelligent
|
|
I've herad that dogs and other animals only recognize the tone in someone's voice but i believe that they also know what we sya because i have asked my dog in a clam way if he would like to go on a walk and he walked to the door and waited for me to take him on a walk So i believe that unlike what oithers say that animals aren't as smart as us i believe that they are as smart as, if not smarter than us (sorry if this doesn't belong i wasn't sure exactly where to put it)
I will protect you
|
|
Re: Primal or Equally Intelligent
Link |
by
on 2007-12-30 16:24:06 |
|
If you define smart as the ability to process human language and act like a human, you're dog is not that smart. If you define smart as the ability to pick out the precise pattern of a few dozen molecules at concentrations of a few parts per billion from a childhood memory allowing the animal to dig up a bone buried years earlier in a yard which has had major visual queues removed or changed, then your dog is way, way smarter than you are. The meaning of the word "intelligence" has been discussed already, see Education vs. Intelligence. My opinion is that a dog is a very smart creature. I say this because it has more ability to adapt through complex and even abstract learning than the vast majority of species on the planet. Even a sea sponge can "learn", and it has only one neuron in it's whole body. Of course, I shouldn't need to tell you that dog's don't speak english. They do respond to verbal command, but they are not comprehending words in the same abstract way we do. Their brains filter out noise, like humans talking to one another. If you casually stare off into space, and say, without dry inflection, "sit", the dog doesn't know you're talking to it. This trick works on people, like myself, who are busy doing something else. If you start talking and they respond with only "uh-huh", you can sometimes sneak in an unexpected remark unnoticed. A dog also responds to visual queues, like hand gestures which, when absent, render the verbal command less powerful. I suppose it would be an exercise in trying to see the world from a dog's point of view for a novice to stare at raw computer code. String literals, which are well within the comprehensive capabilities of a literate human, are clearly visible. The hexadecimal representation of the binary machine code, on the other hand, is not. It is no accident that dogs respond to the emotional signals in our voices, like pitch, tone, quickness, and harshness. They, too, are social animals, whose basic emotional set and communication mechanisms are very similar, being our close mammalian cousins. I say close because, compared to a parakeet, their DNA and therefore innate methods of communication are similar. Not the same, since we lack tails, and they lack our vocal chords, but quite analogous and similar. 
|
|
Re: Primal or Equally Intelligent
|
|
Thank you for your input Gendou i always thought that the fact that sicne a dog is related to a wolf and wolves live in packs and start packs and people live in familys as well as start families we are simlar and even thought its off subject i think theres a chance we evolved from wolves because they have shoudler blades
I will protect you
|