jaamesbaxterr@lemmy.world to cats@lemmy.world · 25 days agoDo cats experience existential dread?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1506file-text
arrow-up1506imageDo cats experience existential dread?lemmy.worldjaamesbaxterr@lemmy.world to cats@lemmy.world · 25 days agomessage-square30fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarejohannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·24 days agoI’d say no, knowledge that we will some day die is unique to humans. They certainly experience ennui though.
minus-squareGot_Bent@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·24 days agoNow I wonder about elephants given that they have funerals and mourn their dead.
I’d say no, knowledge that we will some day die is unique to humans.
They certainly experience ennui though.
Now I wonder about elephants given that they have funerals and mourn their dead.
Same with crows.
We don’t know that.