How to Communicate With a Creature Without a Language in Common

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My dog used to when he was a puppy, he would just like randomly pick things and run away with them. And that's sort of like a similar thing. He didn't care about having the thing. I mean, occasionally he did, but usually what he wanted was for me to chase him. So basically it was just like he was trying to communicate something to me and then he didn't have a searching sub to a way to do that. Yeah. If he sits on a scale when I'm eating food, it means I want some of the food you're eating so I'll always give him a little tiny bit. But if I go reach his head and he kind of leans

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What is the Internal Family Systems model? What kinds of information do our emotions give us? How many agents live in our heads? And, if there's more than one, how well do those agents cooperate? What is operant conditioning? What is attachment theory? How does parenting differ from animal training? Is decision theory able to unify many different psychological theories?

Divia Eden has always been interested in understanding how minds work, and she currently spends most of her time unschooling her three kids. You can find out more about her at becomingeden.com or follow her on Twitter at @diviacaroline.

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