Incidentally, I did not claim that dogs can perform abstract thinking—I’m not clear on where you are getting that idea from.
You said that the dog had a belief that a bark is always followed by a poker prod. This posits separate entities and a way that they interact, which looks to me like abstract thought.
The definition of “abstract thought” seems like a can of worms to me.
I don’t really see why I should go there.
Incidentally, I did not claim that dogs can perform abstract thinking—I’m not clear on where you are getting that idea from.
You said that the dog had a belief that a bark is always followed by a poker prod. This posits separate entities and a way that they interact, which looks to me like abstract thought.
The definition of “abstract thought” seems like a can of worms to me.
I don’t really see why I should go there.