Animal Minds
Dogs
Human Mind
Concepts & Social Reality
100

All animals regulate this to survive, and humans also manage this through the interoceptive network. 

What is the body budget? 

100

This ability allows dogs and humans to regulate each other's body budgets.

What is interoceptive connection?

100

This creates multiple kind of minds, according to Feldman-Barrett. 

What is the human brain's evolution and prediction process?

100

These are inevitable for the human brain to construct. 

What are concepts?
200

This animal has an interoceptive network similar to humans.

What are macaque monkeys?

200

The direction a dog's tail wags when they see something positive.

What is to the right?

200

These 2 cultures do not distinguish between thinking and feeling.

What are Balinese and Ilongot cultures?

200

This is the function concepts serve in survival.

What is modeling the world to meet the body's energy needs?

300

This is why macaques have a smaller affective niche than humans.

What is a smaller, less connected brain?

300

This is a type of concept dogs have due to their strong sense of smell.

What are olfactory concepts? 

300

This is what Feldman-Barrett calls the brain's moment-to-moment predictive process.

What is a computational moment within the predicting brain?

300

This is what distinguishes social reality as a 'human superpower'.

What is communicating purely mental concepts through language?

400

This limits animals' ability to make mental inferences like humans.

What is lack of brain wiring for sensory integration?

400

Dogs outperform monkeys in understanding humans by doing this better.

What is following gaze and gestures?

400

This term describes when we experience what we believe.

What is affective realism?

400

This is a major advantage of social reality.

What is treating constructions we've made (like money) as real?

500

These are the types of concepts animals can form, while humans form goal-based concepts. 

What are simple, concrete concepts? (e.g., banana, or eating)

500

This is a reason why dogs' affective niches might be larger than humans in some ways.

What are advanced senses of hearing and smell?

500

This is the best defense against affective realism, according to Feldman-Barrett.

What is curiosity?

500

This is a disadvantage of social reality.

What is mistaking perceiver-dependent ideas for objective reality?