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@gelfling – “Specism”…I like that.
To answer your question, I suppose I can’t think of any foolproof examples offhand, simply because I can’t directly read a mind other than my own. But to assume that we, as a species, are alone in abstraction based on the fact that we have been able to exploit our planet more thoroughly than others strikes me as presumptuous. That aside, it would be very hard for me to base the behavior of the crow in the video above, or even that of your dog in the window example you gave, as products of concrete thinking. In both instances, learned behavior appears to have been transferred from one context to another, in other words abstracted.
Like you, I believe future generations will come to look at ours shamefully, both for our short-sighted use of earth’s natural resources and for our anthropocentricity; that will be, if there are that many future generations.
O.K. Angry birds. Looks like the X-Men ads are back at 1-2 per melting cycle on both my iPad and iPhone. Sweet. I’ve gotten 21/23 Bird side characters and 19/21 Pork side from melts so far. Because I haven’t been playing much on the phone, I’m going to try to see if I can eventually unlock all of the bonus levels without using coins at all. Something to do…