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Further to the emotional capacities of animals, dogs' bodies and faces are so emotionally expressive it's as though their emotions travel up through their bodies and are expressed physically, in movement, without bypassing their intellectual analysis - or thought processes (much). If anything, animals exhibit all the behaviors that indicate that they 'feel' emotion directly and to a much greater capacity than we have. We have largely lost the capacity to be aware of/express the emotions in our bodies because we pypass our intuitive systems and send it straight to the intellect, where a 'spin' is put on it: a reflection of our intellectual conditioning. 

Animals have a lot to teach us about the way to feel emotion and to express it physically - without either suppressing it, or converting it to intellectual 'reasoning' directed at something or someone outside of us, which becomes ingrained and leads to narrow thinking. This is exactly the trouble with the emotion of fear that is now being expressed as racism, etc.  







Heather Dyer, Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellow







 
 
 


On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 11:55 AM, Jayne Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

I would add that my koi fish are exceedingly intelligent and can identify me from others by sight.  They have learned a range of social tricks for encouraging me to spend time with them!


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From: learning development in higher education network <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Helen Webster <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 11:42 AM

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Subject: Re: Hoping folk think these questions of relevance/interest - can dogs be educated? can dogs be educators?
 
Can rats be educators? I put this question to  one of the Scholastic Rats this morning as he sat on the sofa sharing my toast. He winked at me.

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On 17 Jul 2018, at 11:30, Jayne Richards <00000cdcc0a41a06-dmarc-[log in to unmask]> wrote:

So true: love and anger etc., are concepts.  As humans we reformulate our understandings of emotions to encompass intellectual grounding.  Animal are clearly capable of all manner of emotions but do not misappropriate or add 'spin' by divorcing feeling through conventional signifiers.


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From: learning development in higher education network <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Ian Johnson <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 11:13 AM
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Subject: Re: Hoping folk think these questions of relevance/interest - can dogs be educated? can dogs be educators?
 
What struck me as I was pondering these questions is that while (as some earlier contributors have noted), dogs and indeed other animals seem to 'learn' initially through behaviourist principles ('if I behave like this, I get this reward' etc), the results of those learnings turn into something very different. Rather than just displaying desirable behaviours, dogs learn to enact these in combinations, which in turn closely resemble human emotions, like 'anger' or 'love'. These emotions from dogs can look and feel very much like their human equivalents. And in terms of whether the dog can become a teacher ... humans (children and adults alike) can observe a dog displaying love/affection and learn to replicate the pattern. It's definitely an argument that many humans might acquire the ability to replicate an emotion better by observing it from a dog (who displays it flawlessly and largely unconditionally) than a human (who might display it subject to caveats). I guess this explains the growing popularity of canine and equine therapy too. So yes, I believe dogs can be learners and teachers and that it goes deeper than behaviourism. Fantastic thread, and I would love to know what motivated this question, Gordon!

Best,
Ian Johnson
Learning Development Tutor
University of Portsmouth

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