What is the psychological reason humans find kittens and puppies cute
>>4898549I heard it was because they have 'baby-like' faces. Large heads, big eyes, that sort of stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0zConOPZ8Y
>>4898549they look like babies>>4898570yah they look like babies
All baby animals even snakes are cute. This feeling is older than humans, probably as old as mammals itself.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugi4x8kZJzk&t=20sI am convcinced the reason the leopard didn't hurt the baby was because it was "cute" to her.
>>4898605>>4898647So, to reiterate, it's like a built in safety mechanism that makes us see infants as precious, harmless, and worth protecting. But the dark side of that is, what if we didn’t have this mechanism? How would we see these creatures, and what would we do?
>>4898673There's no darkside.
>>4898570>>4898637they are babies
>>4898549Tens of thousands of years of using animals for our own needs have made us sympathetic towards animals in general, with an extra affinity towards the ones we have a long-standing symbiotic relationship with. We are designed to identify animals we can adopt into our tribe, so we can benefit from their presence.>We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own. Your culture will adapt to service us. Resistance is futile.
>>4898979We're not the borg collective, we're the meatbag cooperative.>We will place your biological and technological distinctiveness adjacent to our own. We will complain about each other to no end. Resistance will have a temporary destructive effect. We will both resist.
>>4898981>We will both resistI don't know about you but my cat only resists when I tell her she can't go outside because it's cold and I don't want to keep the door open.
>>4898673Spike in SIDS, small drop in pet ownership
>>4898647>probably as old as mammals itself.probably even older than mammals. Baby crocodiles and alligators look cute and have cute voices.But there are even some spiders and insects, like cockroaches, that care for their young, and they do have cute characteristics when they are young.So the question should be more about why are youthful animals more rounded and with bigger eyes compared to their adult form?Did the cuteness response evolve in reaction to babies being more rounded or did babies become more rounded in response to the cuteness detection?
>>4898549because we know they're babies, just not human ones. it really doesn't go any deeper than that
