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210: The Science of Talking Dogs

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The Problem With Dogs' Understanding of Duration

Dogs have a concept of duration, but we don't know how they describe it. So using words like tomorrow evening yesterday and tomorrow are very human concepts. And that's not necessarily the lens that other creatures look through the world with. This is why when sort of laymen do it, I think it can be kind of problematic. We fall short because we look at things through a very human lens, like a decidedly human lens.

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