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0 pointsgoodpoint3y ago0 comments

Those videos are comically misleading.

The author acts as if cats can understand abstract concepts and combining words into a SVO grammar. And with dozens of words!

"later morning" "later play [with] dad" "love you mommy"

This is simply far outside the cognitive abilities of cats.

Edit: Confirmation bias is so strong that I get downvotes for writing this.

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vorpalhex3y ago

You're getting downvoted because you are making a strong contrary claim with no evidence whatsoever. It's the equivalent of two kids going:

"Yes it is!"

"No it's not!"

"Yeahuh it is!"

goodpointOP3y ago

Not only there is widely available scientific literature on the topic, but is is also stuff that people should have learned in high school if not before.

Do I also need to provide evidence that the earth is not flat?

vorpalhex3y ago

Then please cite it.

Citations here should be trivial.

I can absolutely cite and argue that the Earth is not flat - and win.

I suspect you will not be able to do so for this claim you are making.

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0 pointsgoodpoint3y ago0 comments

Those videos are comically misleading.

The author acts as if cats can understand abstract concepts and combining words into a SVO grammar. And with dozens of words!

"later morning" "later play [with] dad" "love you mommy"

This is simply far outside the cognitive abilities of cats.

Edit: Confirmation bias is so strong that I get downvotes for writing this.

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vorpalhex3y ago

You're getting downvoted because you are making a strong contrary claim with no evidence whatsoever. It's the equivalent of two kids going:

"Yes it is!"

"No it's not!"

"Yeahuh it is!"

goodpointOP3y ago

Not only there is widely available scientific literature on the topic, but is is also stuff that people should have learned in high school if not before.

Do I also need to provide evidence that the earth is not flat?

vorpalhex3y ago

Then please cite it.

Citations here should be trivial.

I can absolutely cite and argue that the Earth is not flat - and win.

I suspect you will not be able to do so for this claim you are making.

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j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse