sundray to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 months agoDo animals have emotions like us?imagemessage-square213fedilinkarrow-up11.13Karrow-down118file-textcross-posted to: vegan@lemmy.world
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minus-squareMindTraveller@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·6 months agoHow do you know cats don’t experience sonder? Did you ask one? No, you just assumed
minus-squaresundrayOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·6 months agoTwo monks were passing by a little pond where there were some ducks, and the first monk said, “Look at how happy those ducks are!” The second monk said, “You are not a duck. You can’t know if they are happy.” The first monk replied, “You are not me. You can’t know that I cannot.”
minus-squareFishbone@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months agoThe takeaway from this is that half of all monks may or may not have duck telepathy, yes?
minus-squareAngryCommieKender@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 months agoI’ve asked my cats loads of questions. Not one has given a comprehensive answer.
minus-squaresamus12345@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·6 months agoSonder is the inverse of this:
minus-squareNobodyElse@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoHad to look that up too. My immediate reaction was wondering if Thalasin works for them too? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Td2x8s9GZlo
How do you know cats don’t experience sonder? Did you ask one? No, you just assumed
Two monks were passing by a little pond where there were some ducks, and the first monk said, “Look at how happy those ducks are!”
The second monk said, “You are not a duck. You can’t know if they are happy.”
The first monk replied, “You are not me. You can’t know that I cannot.”
The takeaway from this is that half of all monks may or may not have duck telepathy, yes?
It’s a zen parable, so… yes.
Hidden gem. Thanks!
I’ve asked my cats loads of questions. Not one has given a comprehensive answer.
sonwhat?
Sonder is the inverse of this:
Had to look that up too. My immediate reaction was wondering if Thalasin works for them too?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Td2x8s9GZlo