{"id":18511,"date":"2021-09-29T06:50:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-29T13:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18511"},"modified":"2021-09-29T06:50:51","modified_gmt":"2021-09-29T13:50:51","slug":"overnight-news-why-are-you-and-your-dog-just-about-equally-good-at-managing-relationships-its-because-youre-doing-it-the-same-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18511\/overnight-news-why-are-you-and-your-dog-just-about-equally-good-at-managing-relationships-its-because-youre-doing-it-the-same-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: Why are you and your dog just about equally good at managing relationships? It\u2019s because you\u2019re doing it the same\u00a0way."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cPuppies know who has treats. Dogs know how to befriend and not just\u00a0bedevil.\u201d<\/p><\/div>It is your thinking brain that languidly declines Latin nouns and categorizes and conjugates all those vigorous verbs. Whatever else it does, the thinking brain is an amazing database engine \u2013 the source of the information that makes informed discretion \u2013 free will \u2013 possible.<\/p>\n

And yet: You as a human being can manage a truly sociable social network of only around 150 people \u2013 15 or fewer you know and love as family, with the rest being those people about whom you can speak in loving detail of recent memories. As new close relationships are added, older, more-distant ones drop away, since 150 or so is all you mind can handle.<\/p>\n

But consider: This is also true of your dog: He knows and trusts dozens of people \u2013 and other dogs \u2013 but it’s only family he treats as furniture. If you watch your dog interacting with people he knows, you will see graduated expectations based on past experience \u2013 for instance, who shares food while eating and who only afterward? That is: A database of memories of past interactions with particular people.<\/p>\n

Evolution gave us the need for the thinking brain \u2013 too many freakishly difficult survival problems all at once \u2013 but the Greeks wrote the manual. But they \u2013 and we \u2013 are blinded by our own brilliance: We refuse to see what we had to have seen first, in order to have seen anything at all: All mammals are amazing adaptations with astounding brain power. They can’t connect dots, but they never, ever have their postulated ducks out of alignment.<\/p>\n

It seems obvious to me that dogs and people manage personal relationships in about the same way because they are doing it with the same hardware: The mammal brain. Do recall, all other mammals are solving their own social problems without the thinking brain; unlike proto-humanity’s survival crises, the need pre-existed the hardware upgrade. This is very alien to the Greek way of thinking, where “dumb” animals are regarded as animate rocks, surprisingly variable deterministic Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cPuppies know who has treats. Dogs know how to befriend and not just\u00a0bedevil.\u201dIt is your thinking brain that languidly declines Latin nouns and categorizes and conjugates all those vigorous verbs. 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