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What we say to the dog

What we say to the dog
From Faces in the cloud

Figure 4-1 Gary Larson cartoon 1983. We anthropomorphize animals by talking to them and feeling
that they understand more than they do.
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 Dinesh
Dinesh club
. . . while talking about the power of the gaze, Sartre recalls being present at a scene in which a group of people were talking about a dog -- a variant on the scene described by Levinas in his prison camp, where the dog looked joyfully at the humans. This time, as the people looks down at him, the dog realises they are paying him attention, but cannot understand why. He becomes agitated and confused, gets up, bounds towards them, stops, whines, and then barks. As Sartre wrote, he seems to ‘feeling at his expense the strange reciprocal mystification which is the relationship between man and an animal.

Sartre rarely grants other animals the compliment fo recognising their forms of consciousness. Until now he had implicitly set them all in the realm of the ‘in’itself’ along with trees and slabs of concrete. But now it seems his view has shifted. Animals may not be fully conscious -- but perhaps humans are not either, and this may be what Sartre means by taking us to the border of dreams. ~ Page 223

FACES IN THE CLOUDS
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 Dinesh
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As Inzlicht and his colleagues propose, the animal findings suggest that effort can becomem pleasurable through simple association. Suppose whenever your dog does something you want to reward, you take out a treat and, right before you give it over, you say, “Good dog!” Before you start practicing this routine, the dog enjoys the treat -- this pleasure is unlearned -- and “Good dog!” means nothing. But, as any animal trainer or Psyche 101 student will tell you, the phrase becomes associated with the treat, and soon you can get the dog to shudder with delight by simply saying the words - page 132

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