[FRIAM] Does Dusty Love Dave, and VV.

[Prof David West]

I will agree, mostly, with your abductions. However,

We have different conceptions of harm. Dusty growls at other dogs who come to me at the dog park. Maybe to 'protect' me, maybe from 'jealousy'. Dusty does not recognize the leash as protection from harm.

Mutual attending is definitely true and, for me, the proper foundation for inferring the meta-state of love.

Separation is an anxiety for Dusty and entails more than absence; e.g., where's my dinner. Separation does not cause anxiety for me, but definitely a "longing" and an awareness of the absence.

helpful?

davew




On Fri, Jul 12, 2024, at 12:19 PM, Nicholas Thompson wrote:
> Oh, and. do you now agree that the relation is loving, or, what additional coditions would you care to add to make that attribution a comfortable one for you.
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> On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 12:59 PM Nicholas Thompson <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [Please, Friammers,, if you join this discussion, stay close to this or other closely related down-to-earth experiences.
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>> Dave, you offer as data:
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>> **Dave is sleepy and calm.**
>> **Dusty is anxious and afraid.**
>> **Dusty crawls onto Dave's shoulder and finds reassurance and security.**
>> **Dave is tolerant and does not shove Dusty off bed.**
>> **Dave senses Dusty's need for reassurance and rests his arm across her back and lets her stay as she is.**
>> **Dusty relaxes and goes to sleep.**
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>> You then offer the following guide to interpretation:
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>> **Love is not present in this transaction, unless you presume that a series of prior interactions created a kind of meta-state of Lovingness between the two**
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>> I agree with you that love is a meta state in the sense that it is an arrangement of other behavioral states.  So I will leave that alone.  Having so stipulated, I think it is reasonable to say, on the basis of the data you set forth, that  a meta-state of lovingness exists between you.  (I would prefer to say you love one another, but partly in deference to SG, I will adopt your lingo.]  To call your joint behavior loving is to perform an abduction.  The test of an abduction is to examine the deductions that flow from it: 
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>> So, if Dave and Dusty have a loving relationship, then, on my understanding, the following would be true:
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>> **You would protect one another against harm.**
>> **You would attend to one another if either was sick, injured, or depressed.**
>> **You would  become uneasy if you were separated for an unexpectedly long time.**
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>> Are these things true?
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>> Nick
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