Posted: Jul 29, 2014 3:50 pm
Goldenmane wrote:
Nah, that's arguably simply an inability to grasp what shit is likely to result in his mortality. Not the same thing.
Except, if you have no grasp of mortality you are unlikely to grasp what might bring about your demise.
Goldenmane wrote:
Though maybe he's just like a teenage boy - incapable of grasping that he, too, can die.
Which is pretty much the thrust of what I was getting at above. I'm not sure there is evidence that individual animals realise that they will one day die.