Humans have always regarded themselves as owners when raising pets. Do you know what kind of existence you have in your pet's heart? We think that we are nurturing our pets, and our pets may feel that they are nurturing us. So do pets have the ability to recognize themselves?
1. There is a very funny saying : You provide the dog with food, shelter, and play, and it thinks you are a god. If you provide food, shelter, and play with the cat, it will think it is a god. It can be seen that pets have a certain degree of self-awareness, but this awareness is not the same as that of humans.
2. From an emotional point of view, pets cannot have such advanced things as self-awareness, so they will not have a sophisticated analysis of their own environment like humans. However, from a behavioral perspective From an evolutionary perspective, it only needs a reason to make it feel that pleasing you is useful, and it can survive successfully.
3. Cats and dogs are not self-aware, so they naturally do not retain the concept of "knowing who they are." As for their behavior, it should mainly come from their original instincts - if I please you, I will have something to eat, so I will please you again next time. If you think I'm funny when I play big, and you give me something to eat, then I'll continue to play big next time. Their attitude toward people does not involve issues of identity.
4. The concept of pets only exists in human society, and the relationship in the animal kingdom is more easily understood as "symbiosis" or "parasitism." Don't think that pets are obedient or afraid of you, they just depend on you for their existence.
5. Just like people do not understand themselves in many situations, for pets, they do not have enough self-awareness to think about their own situation.
6. The difference between high-end animals and dwarf animals is not just the symbiosis between different life species, and fear and obedience are just the spread of emotions.
7. Cats and dogs only exist in human society with their own original abilities. It is humans who impose different terms on them, telling them what they should and should not do.
I think pets themselves certainly have their own subjective thinking, that is, they should also have self-awareness, but their level of self-awareness is mostly determined by external factors. Functional, such as training, similar competitions, etc., so it may not be accurate, but it cannot be vague, and there is self-awareness.
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