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Originally Posted by whswhs
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Or as S.M. Stirling puts it, a human being may pretend to love you to get you to feed them, but an animal really does love you because you feed it.
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Saying that requires telepathy or at least MRIs to determine veracity of apparent emotion based behavior.
It all still seems to be a word that only describes humans regardless of how little the actual definition excludes non-humans.
I expect that for sapience, but didn't for bestial. But I suppose I should have.
We had a cat that lied and affected a limp to get sympathy tuna or attention. So it's not even a primate/corvid only complexity.