jaamesbaxterr@lemmy.world to cats@lemmy.world · 4 months agoDo cats experience existential dread?lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1508arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1502arrow-down1external-linkDo cats experience existential dread?lemmy.worldjaamesbaxterr@lemmy.world to cats@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square30fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarejohannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up12·4 months 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-up12·4 months 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.