is it weird to imagine that animals have little light voice in their heads?
that they dont know what they are doing but are actively saying how they doing it for example "i feel threatened so ill runnnnn".
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thats an interesting concept and makes you think about language and inner thoughts... when we think we apply knowledge of language, we think in words because our thoughts are associated with those words. but typically animals do not use language, so then what are their thoughts? how do they experience thought?
also there are domesticated animals that learn language, parrots learn to actually speak and understand what they are saying, but even cats and dogs learn commands (unrelated story, i taught my cat to nuzzle under chin at command "love" =3). so to an extent they understand communication.
and then their are animals that teach. like otters teach things like using rocks as tools to break open oysters.
and social experiments with gorillas showed us that they have/learn culture when one gorilla taught the others the trick to a puzzle to get a treat.
how do they communicate to pass these things on? are their thoughts formed in that way? things like body language, and if so how does that work? imagination? imagining images of themselves? if we imagine voices in ours heads, cant they imagine seeing in theirs to give form to their thoughts?
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My rabbit sometimes puts one paw on my thigh and stares at me until I give him something to eat. I always kinda imagined he'd have Will Smith's voice and be thinking something along the lines of "Get me a carrot, you whore".
that's called fear
and the running is a reaction response
If you have no concept of structured thoughts, you'd live just like them for the very most part.
It's not having a voice in your head, it's just you do what you do without much, and often without any, thinking and consideration.
Think what you do when you see something coming at you potentially ending in a contact. You would immediately dodge it or block it without a single thought depending on how your reflex is wired by genetics and/or trained by your past experience. That's basically how you'd live without structured thoughts, just repeated for like 90% of your life.