Can animals think?

^^ Kinda like yourself I suppose

[Kurt Angle]

Originally posted by Samwise
^^ Kinda like yourself I suppose

Only when I\'m thinking of you.

I believe that some animals may be capable of cognitive thought, like dolphins, primates, and certain other animals. But to say that dogs and such can have intelligent conversations is ridiculous.

I believe these simpler animals act solely on instinct. They indeed have some sort of memory, like, this is food, this person feeds me. Which is a programmed response to the fact that something good happened the last time it was in that situation.

Also I definitely have doubts about that factual nature of the conciousness of animals when it is written by the Animal Rights and Vegetarian Ethics organization. :rolleyes:

BTW, check this out. Interesting.

Originally posted by r4nd0m
BTW, check this out. Interesting.

No, this is iteresting...



My animal instincs are coming out a bit, sorry!:D

Hey project that must be a scan huh there is some sort of discoluration all of it?

mmm.. interesting..

[Titan]

I\'ve been studying my parakeets on communication. I can conclude that they have a basic language to communicate with eachother. If they weren\'t made to communicate, they would have no need for chirping. Obviously, they are saying something to eachother. I\'ve also noticed from them that when one starts yelling at the other, the other yells back and they begin to bite eachother.

I found that my cat has an interesting system for getting me to give in to letting him sit on my lap when I don\'t want to allow him. It took some time and experimenting but he found out that if he keeps jumping on me and waiting until I don\'t notice him, he jumps. When he keeps jumping on me, he knows that I\'ll get tired of throwing him off and I\'ll give in.

Chimps can think. Some can spell words, recognize themselves in a mirror. They have the intelligence of a three year old child. I find it very interesting. Coco, she can tell what she is feeling and talk to humans with sign language.

My theory is that if it has a brain, it uses the brain to think, to a certain capacity. Flies, they can think. All they can think is where to go, even though they trap themselves and get stuck but that\'s it. Mammals, know where to go, hunting techniques, mate picking, things like that. But humans are animals too and we think. We are the most advanced thinkingwise though so we are superior to other animals.

of course animals think, but not the way humans do.
well to be more accurate we need to specify what we mean when we say "think". If thinking is to try to solve major social problems by overcoming the instability caused by marginal elements in a consuming society with no other care than self-preservation ignoring the effectiveness of universal association and effort, essential for....but....beyond....(@#%#).............
then animals probably do not think at all !!
If thinking means how to manage to go to a safe place to leave some  beautiful excrements or how to fertilize individuals of the same species and stuff like that, then animals may think better than humans

ps : i may be drunk now

Apes can think and have feelings also. I had to do a report on  gorillas and there was a gorilla named koko and it new sign language and had a cat and the cat died and in sign language koko said she was sad....poor gorilla :sad:

Originally posted by Cyrus
Hey project that must be a scan huh there is some sort of discoluration all of it?

Discoloration eh? I guess you could say that but who cares? It’s a whole lot better than some silly topic about thinking animals can think.

REEF!!!!!!!!

[Titan]

I\'m gonna save that pic to my hard drive

did i fail to mention i am a dog with a pencil in my teeth. Lol all kidding aside yes animals think, and have cognitive thinking skills. some by trial and error: MY cat ran in to the wall once chasing its glitter stick, hasn\'t done it twice. Cat stepped close to fire. Hasn\'t done it since. So yes animals think. its freakin cold outside
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Your sig is too long. Oh yes, that and you are an idiot.

[Viper_Fujax]

yep, they do. Cuz my dog always runs in his sleep(not actually running, but he makes the motion of it), so hes obviously dreaming about something. Plus there has to be a thought process for things they have to figure out.