I dunno, it depends what it says to you. My elderly cat who has trouble getting enough food down just said, “feed me”, and i gave her a spoonful of cat food. (And then stood between her and the healthy young cat who also wanted to eat the food.) I don’t think that makes me the son of Sam.
I mean, pets are very chatty, but what they say tends to be pretty simple and mundane. “Feed me”, “make room for me in your lap”. “Pet me here” “stop that”.
Which is exactly how I communicate.
I say few words out loud. But “food” comes out easily. If I can’t “say” it I can sign it. Or just eat the food.
I have those thumbs, makes it easy to open a can or package. Or make a sandwich.
Animals? Not so much.
If we wanna keep these pets we have to kinda read their minds, follow instructions from someone better informed, or watch their cues.
If you think about actual communication between different species and between persons, there are many things at play. Listening, seeing, signaling and with humans, of course speech. Can you trust every word a human says? Nope. Body language may unconsciously tell you, no that’s not true, no matter what you say.
I can say this with authority, my dogs or my cats have never lied to me.
Bear, the Evil Siamese monster thinks he’s fooling me. But I’m on to him.
Hey, my cordless drill’s feelings are hurt, and you need to apologize - its’ favourite flowers are Helianthus neglectus
Really, in my experience they lie all the time. “I was not fed breakfast”, “I’ve not had a walk”, “there is something important to see outside” (so I can steal your spot on the couch when you get up).
I have very personal, intimate relationship with my CGM.
It’s stuck on me. Or am I stuck to it?
I talk to it, I check it regularly and inquire about its health and well being.
I protect it from harm. Get annoyed at it. I swear sometimes it’s got it in for me. Could kill me easily.
And, yes it has lied to me. More times than I can count.
Yet I allow to hang around
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Am I at the cusp of humanity relying on artificial devices, implanted. Ones we’re expected to live with, or else we’d die?
I’ll take a size 3 kidney device and just a small pancreas device. (my melon is fine, we will not be implanting artificial brains today) I’m not greedy. TY.
I don’t call that lying. I call that being smart ass.