If you live with an animal, or if you have someone living nearby, or if you just love animals and enjoy communicating with them, you must say "Hello" to a cat you see on the street, "How are you" to a dog, "Good morning" to a crow.
Although some animals, especially dogs, can be directed by commands, it is not possible to have a "meaningful conversation" with the animals. Even if we think that the animals we communicate with respond to us with their body language or the sounds they make, this is not the case. We are experiencing an imaginary conversation, like the dialogues we have in our minds, as in the account of Grape and Other Things.
She knows what she's doing and seems to come near
We may think that the "meow" response we take to our cat, who is stung by us by making various noises while sitting at the computer while dealing with something, is "you are always dealing with other things when we want our attention". When we express our love to our cat, who sometimes starts to rub lovingly while watching television, saying "vote, I'll eat you, I love you so much", our cat continues to rub against us by meowing and grunting "Does he understand what I say?" can trigger the question. Many cats and dogs that live with humans are able to communicate with them in some way and express their simple needs. For example, many cats and dogs can tell that they are hungry by making various sounds between the person they live with and the food bowl. Sometimes cats stand by the litter tray when their sand is very dirty and swell the heads of the people they live with with an uncomfortable meow. Meanwhile, our cat wants to tell us "clean my sand", maybe he's scolding a little. In such a situation, after we unavoidably say "okay, explosion, we are cleaning the sand", the ongoing voices of our cat may come to our ears as "be quick and I will do it".
Why are we talking to these animals? "Is it strange that I tell Nermal several times a day that I love her?" The Atlantic writer Arianna Rebolini's little brother hugged her cat and said. she asks. Rebolini looks at the cat his brother embraces and thinks it would be strange if his brother did not tell this animal that he loved him, which tried all kinds of cuteness to endear himself. She remembers that Rebolini also kept two cats and talked to them often. Rebolini, deeply enthusiastic, reaches out to anthrozoologist Hal Herzog, a professor of psychology at Western Carolina University, by phone and said, "People talk to animals even if they know why they don't understand?" asks the question.
Anthropomorphy is everywhere First of all, Herzog says talking to animals is extremely commonplace for humans. People automatically humanize living, non-living, objects or concepts around them due to their anthropomorphic ability. Fables and works with characters like Mickey Mouse are examples of anthropomorphism. Going further back, the imagination of the gods of Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt in human form or the depiction of the communication of the prophets with God in the form of "speaking" can be considered as indicators of the use of humanity's anthropomorphic ability in various fields of life.
When we think of ourselves, the reason why we get angry with insults and curses at the fountain pen that runs out of ink at the moment we sign our signature, the phone that runs out of battery during an emergency call, the ATM that is not working, the television that does not turn on is our anthropomorphic ability that causes us to attribute a meaning and personality to the things around us. Still, this ability seems to stand out when it comes to animals and artificial intelligence.