Friday, March 23, 2012

Will we ever talk to animals

Hmm.  Human civilisations are centered about spoken and written languages, but even here physical communication in language is not entirely absent either which probably predominates much so in the animal kingdom.  As to the segment of dolphins, it seems that communications arranged on provisional arrangements (i.e., rewarding communication with provision), one I would suspect were more likely to see higher receptivity to communication exchanges arranged in domesticated versus wild animals...wild animals, while not always true, may have less provisional exchange in their communicative relationships (i.e.,neither having the expectation beyond say dependency time frames in others for solving problems or provisional arrangements).  Interestingly enough I recall a researcher describing the difference between a wolf and a dog standing in front of a cage with reward inside.  The cage were locked, and the differences in behaviour were that the wolf, would persistently engage at disassembling the cage until having retrieved its reward alone, while a dog might whine and patiently sit in front of the cage but neither be so inclined to pick apart the cages assembly to figure out how to obtain such reward.  Here it seems the dog's mindset evolved uniquely around relations with other humans, appeared generally more likely to think of human's solving problem's inherent to rewards unless a human clearly provided trained instruction in disassembling the cage, whereas the mindset of the wolf neither appeared as expectantly waiting for human s to train or provide...

While provision based relationships may at times be found in the wild, it seems in theory, if provisional exchange were limited in some capacity, one could imagine, that corresponding interests in exchange and curiosity would also be limited.  While human's may once have lived more strongly to rhythmic pull of nature, it seems this had changed over time when more strongly arrhythmic tendency should make possible human survival (best example that I can think of is sexual reproductive cycles).  Why would animals have innate curiosity to think about complex abstract thoughts when centers in thinking are predominantly oriented in application to life more strongly with respect to immediate concerns.  Of course, this isn't to say that those engaged in cyclic migratory patterns, aren't without the ability to think of future, but it seems more likely to me, this is more instinctual in nature.  Likewise for complex patterns of expression, maybe there is much more below the surface of possible verbal exchange?  Its seems retentive memory in animals could be quite different from one animal species to the other, and likewise so to psychological emotional factors which help determine thought processes in so far as intelligent communication exchange.  Lastly one wonders especially where conditions for survival are more stringent, whether variance in behaviours are neither strongly pronounced say as in comparison to the differences found psychologically speaking from one human to the next?

Getting back to the example of the wolf, while potentially wolves, it seems owing to their potential gravitation towards social arrangements inside packs, might offer something of a communication potential between them and humans, it seems this form of communication would be limited.  Here wolves at times coordinating socially, say in hunting groups, would do so, not merely with any other animal or wolf, but within even tighter social strictures defining such pack.  Thus one might ask: if more complex communication is likely evolved according to intra species, intra group social arrangement, how limited might curiosity and communication remain outside such social arrangement?  It seems if evolution and instinct were factored into this, no wonder that animals at times might have very limited interests in a world quite strange and foreign to their own.  If curiosity, observation, and learning are neither necessary and immediate requisites with respect to their functioning in a removed context relative their native habitat, it seems other predominant potentials for thought and communication may take foothold such that intra group social behaviours and communication should weight more strongly at higher potential?  A dolphin it seems

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