Which is actually our four-legged friend? A simple animal, to consider and treat it as such (good and bad) or a being endowed with reason, just different with us, but not for much less? The use of a language involves intellect and an ability to establish interpersonal relationships (or. .. interchanging, if you prefer) undoubtedly reserved for highly evolved animals.
It must be presumed that the dog thinks, "talking", has feelings, all in his own way, of coarse. Some might blame the fact of relying on feelings and not on scientific evidence: So here is how to persuade the skeptics and see if (and how) the dog reasons.
The dog's brain
The brain system of the dog has the three main parts:
- The brain itself, which regulates learning, emotion, and behavior;
- The cerebellum, which controls the muscles and their movements;
- Spinal cord, which connects the brain to the nervous system.
Insofar as the human brain is structured in the same way, it seems difficult to refute the arguments that the dog has a control center perfectly efficient and able to develop complex reasoning.
The limbic system of the dog
As in humans, the limbic system in the brain controls memory and the level of interest. Many studies conducted both in the laboratory through the ethnological observation, found that the dog uses his senses in a slightly different way than humans.
While we normally tend (not always successfully) to keep our senses simultaneously open, the dog selects the direction mainly stimulated by a particular situation, while others are clearly desensitize.
The initial selection is driven by the limbic system, in fact, that governs the degree of interest in a particular stimulus.
It must be presumed that the dog thinks, "talking", has feelings, all in his own way, of coarse. Some might blame the fact of relying on feelings and not on scientific evidence: So here is how to persuade the skeptics and see if (and how) the dog reasons.
The dog's brain
The brain system of the dog has the three main parts:
- The brain itself, which regulates learning, emotion, and behavior;
- The cerebellum, which controls the muscles and their movements;
- Spinal cord, which connects the brain to the nervous system.
Insofar as the human brain is structured in the same way, it seems difficult to refute the arguments that the dog has a control center perfectly efficient and able to develop complex reasoning.
The limbic system of the dog
As in humans, the limbic system in the brain controls memory and the level of interest. Many studies conducted both in the laboratory through the ethnological observation, found that the dog uses his senses in a slightly different way than humans.
While we normally tend (not always successfully) to keep our senses simultaneously open, the dog selects the direction mainly stimulated by a particular situation, while others are clearly desensitize.
The initial selection is driven by the limbic system, in fact, that governs the degree of interest in a particular stimulus.
