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Dogs have agency and can choose? That seems like a rather uncommon take on dogs...
by singpolyma3 3d ago
Dogs have agency and can choose? That seems like a rather uncommon take on dogs...
- mock-possum 3d agoNot if you have a dog. They’re very clearly aware, have minds, have thoughts, gather information, make decisions, second guess themselves, reflect on the immediate consequences, change their mind… and most importantly, you can observe them doing all these things undirected, while left alone with their thoughts.
- jordanb 3d agoI think Cal's point is that while dogs may do these things it reduces to a set of behaviors where maybe 90 percent of them are beneficial to the dog-weedwacker system and the remaining 10 percent are really unfortunate. We can't really know the dogs inner life so we just kinda have to reduce it to a set of behaviors selected stocastically. The dog meanwhile has no ability to understand the weedwacker or what it's doing on its back. So when the guy puts the weedwacker on the dog and the dog predicably does dog things and that results in disaster the guy isn't able to clutch his pearls and say "I guess the system broke containment!"