Joey Lawsin's Blog - Posts Tagged "dogs"

I was browsing my Facebook the other day when this picture caught my attention. It was a picture of a dog who was maltreated by his owner who poured boiling water all over his body for chewing the owner's phone. His miserable conditions broke my heart in deep pain that I need to stop this animal cruelty and raise awareness about the negative aspects of humanizing animals. This article was penned with the intention to educate animal owners to never ever raise their pets like human beings.

People don't realize that when we humanize a pet like a dog, a cat, a bird, or a bear, we are actually raising a human being in an animal suit. This might be a strong statement, but this is a fact according to the Caveman in the Box Trilogy Theory. Humans and animals might seems to be two different species, but when they live side by side with exactly the same surroundings, they become actually two similar objects, in terms of emotions, intelligence, behaviors, and health. When both are raised in the same controlled environment as our homes, humans and animals are emotionally, mentally, physically, and socially the same. How is this so?

Imagine that we are simultaneously raising in the same house two newborn beings: a puppy and a baby.

In this house, the baby is nurtured by the whole family: by a mother, father, brothers, and sisters. Every day, she also sensed the dynamics of the house: she hears the sounds of her mother's calls, sees the contour of her mother's smile, feels the softness of her mother's touch, tastes the flatness of her mother's milk, and even smells the aroma of her mother's scent. She also reacts subconsciously with her home environments like the temperature of the room, the sounds from the television, the smells from the kitchen, and the noises from the whole family. All these sensational interactions that she gradually acquires come to her as pieces of information. They eventually settle down in her mind. From this house, a confined surrounding or environment is where all information begins. It is the primary source that molds the baby's totality, entireness, and her becoming a being, a human being.

Also, in the same house, the puppy is raised by the same people. He is also surrounded by the same dad, mom, and kids. The puppy also hears, smells, sees, and feels everyone and everything in the house. He also reacts with the temperature inside and outside the house, the sounds from the radio and television, the aroma from the kitchen, the taste of the food, and the synergies within the family. Just like with the baby, the same pieces of information are also stored in his brain. And from the same house, with everything is the same, the dog too becomes a being, a human being as well.

Thus, when love and care are provided to the baby, the same love and care are felt by the puppy. When both baby and puppy are placed in the same bed next to the owner, both species will also experience the same comfort, protection, and affection. What the baby sees, smells, feels, hears is what the puppy sees, smells feels, and hears as well. When they are placed in the garage overnight, both will also experience the same nastiness, coldness, loneliness, and anxieties. Whatever the situation is, both beings will identically undergo the same exact experiences. It is not because one is a puppy or a baby, but it is all because they were brought up in the same exact environment.

The environment makes who they are. It is where information comes from. It is a container, a source of information, storage of knowledge. When two species live in the same environment, both will definitely acquire the same exact information. Just like the baby and puppy, the information obtained by the baby will exactly be the same information gained by the puppy because they are identically surrounded by the same objects and people in the house. The information they gained from the house programmed them to be the same beings.

However, some might argue that the baby is totally different from the puppy because the brain of the child is more complex than the brain of the dog. Again, this is another misconception. Why? At some very early age, they come with the same "empty" brains. The brain doesn't come with information yet from birth. According to the experiment below, Information must be acquired, compared, codified, and transmitted first before it becomes communal knowledge. The brain follows this process of acquisition, association, codexation, and transmission to be fully functional.

In a thought experiment, known as The Caveman in the Box Trilogy, the argument above can be thoroughly examined by investigating the origin, creation, and evolution of early information with the following leading questions: 1. How did information emerge into the early minds of the very first humans? 2. Who supplied our primitive ancestors with information? 3. Where did it originate? Where did it come from? 4. Was the source of information a who or a what? Was it god, space aliens, or something else?

In this experiment, a newborn son of a caveman was placed inside a well-designed state-of-the-art fully automated laboratory "box" - where food, water, and everything that the boy needs for his survival, growth, and development were technologically provided. However, he was not allowed ever to see anyone or hear anything. He was totally isolated from the world from birth to adulthood.

Parallel to this same scenario was another box. The box of his father, the first human on earth, who was also placed in isolation from birth to adulthood. The only difference between the two boxes was that the father's box was Mother Nature; the world surrounded by plants, animals, objects, and natural elements.

A third box was also present. The box of his father's dog. This four-legged creature was also isolated from birth to adulthood with the same environment as the second box. The only difference between the master and the dog was that the dog was an animal.

From these three scenarios the following scientific questions were raised:

Who among these three will acquire lots of information?
Who will never acquire any information at all?
Will they be aware of themselves?
Will they become aware of their own surrounding?
Will they figure out that they are alive?
Will they understand the things surrounding them? How?
How many words will they acquire?
If things are not explained to them, how will they know and understand them?
Will their minds stay empty for the rest of their lives?
Will they become conscious of their environments?
Will instinct kicks in?
If instinct is true, what are these instincts that they possess?
How did these instincts develop in the first place?
Will they stay and act like babies throughout their adulthood?

From this thought experiment, the following conclusions were determined:

1. The brain is a clean slate from birth.
2. Humans acquire information from the environment.
3. The environment makes who and what we are today.
4. Nature is the Mother of Information.
5. Information can only be acquired in two ways: by choice or by chance.
6. Instinct is not inborn but a learned behavior.
7. Information originates from the outside and flows into the inside mind.
8. It is inhuman to humanize animals, it is like raising a child in a cage.

In summary, when we humanize a puppy, we are actually raising a human baby. What is disturbing, we place the baby in the crib while we place the puppy in a cage.