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Gregory Berns: Does your dog know you better than you know yourself?

Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda

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The Dog's Emotions Are Different From People's

The pattern in the brain seems very similar to what people show when they, for example, see pictures of loved ones. And so we have to make a leap at a certain point and into it that maybe the dog is experiencing something similar to what we experience. Darwin thought that animals had emotions because in his theory, human emotions didn't just arrive out of thin air. They evolved from similar processes in other animals. There's good reason to believe if you believe in the theory of evolution, that other mammals and probably all animals have some commonality in these basic emotions.

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