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tompe · 05-05-2009, 06:18 AM

Well as usual you have to wait for consensus and see what will appear in text books if you are not an active researcher in the field. As I understand it the state of the research is not such that you can claim what you are claiming.

The claim about animals not having a concept of time and not having preferences was something It thought was "text book accepted". Maybe there are newer research that will lead to a re-evaluation of this.

Here is one article discussing the concept of time in dogs:

http://animals.howstuffworks.com/pet...ceive-time.htm

05-05-2009, 06:18 AM	#121
tompe Grand Sorcerer Posts: 7,452 Karma: 7185064 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Linköpng, Sweden Device: Kindle Voyage, Nexus 5, Kindle PW	Well as usual you have to wait for consensus and see what will appear in text books if you are not an active researcher in the field. As I understand it the state of the research is not such that you can claim what you are claiming. The claim about animals not having a concept of time and not having preferences was something It thought was "text book accepted". Maybe there are newer research that will lead to a re-evaluation of this. Here is one article discussing the concept of time in dogs: http://animals.howstuffworks.com/pet...ceive-time.htm