We’ve got a bunch of new people now so let’s bring back a classic post. What low stakes conspiracy theory do you believe that you cannot prove but feels right to you?
I’ll start: I believe that dating apps have made a concerted effort to smear in person meeting people and tie it to being “creepy” through social media so you are forced to meet people online(which was the creepy option just 15 years ago)
The claim she ‘knew language’ or could ‘speak sentences’ is obvious nonsense. But there’s no doubt that animals like dogs can indeed learn hundreds of words and associate them with real-world concepts. I’ve seen videos where someone has a hundred different stuffed toys in another room, and they can tell the dog to get a specific item with complete reliability. So I’ve no doubt a dog could convey a desire for a specific object, for example. Conveying any abstract concepts, or stringing any sentences beyond a single word, I certainly haven’t seen done with any objectively measurable success.
Yeah I suppose that’s true, I was too extreme in saying animals can’t learn any language when I meant they can’t compose sentences like a lot of these people claim they do.