>>751945>Their cognition is stunted.Yet do dogs not interact with humans on the level of pack behavior and is thus their degeneration not social, but concerned with every other faculty necessary in their previous animal lives? How are we to estimate the point of view of something, that in domestication adapts itself to the signals of its human master, yet is frankly unable to assert any kind of personality except quirks assigned by others? As much as animals are unable to attain humanity, it is i think similarly unheard of for a human to lose theirs barring a serious bodily defects.
If the consciousness of animals were to elude us despite existing, why would being exposed to the more complex social environment of humans not rouse it but smother it instead?
>*protestants doing what christians do*What protestantism most heavily transformed was the relationship of clergy to laity. Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Kant and Hegel were protestants, and neither of them could have existed without the reformation and the personal relation between the believer and god it elevates above the apstolic tradition. This was it's historically progressive character.
>They study nature but detach themselves from the process of nature.And is that not their function?