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minus-squareTharkyslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·15 days agoThis doesn’t surprise me in the least. I have been saying for a couple of years now that animals are gaining sentience. Earlier this week I read another article about about primates making weapons.
minus-squareDonLongSchlong@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·15 days agoMost animals are sentient. Sapience is likely what you mean. Also, tools have been a thing for a while in primates and weapons are just tools of warfare
minus-squareTharkyslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·14 days agoThanks, that was the word I was looking for.
minus-squaresoybeanis [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·15 days ago gaining you say this as though they lacked sentience until recently
minus-squarela_tasalana_intissari_mata [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·15 days agothey were always smart, we just don’t know, we’re just discivering stuff
minus-squareJohandea@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·15 days agoSince we’re animals, animals have been sentient as long as we’ve been. But not likely way before that as well.
minus-squareASaltPepper@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·15 days agoIsrael might have to do what’s necessary to stop those weapons from reaching its borders.
This doesn’t surprise me in the least. I have been saying for a couple of years now that animals are gaining sentience. Earlier this week I read another article about about primates making weapons.
Most animals are sentient. Sapience is likely what you mean.
Also, tools have been a thing for a while in primates and weapons are just tools of warfare
Thanks, that was the word I was looking for.
you say this as though they lacked sentience until recently
they were always smart, we just don’t know, we’re just discivering stuff
Since we’re animals, animals have been sentient as long as we’ve been. But not likely way before that as well.
Israel might have to do what’s necessary to stop those weapons from reaching its borders.