is there a paranormal reason why dogs and their owners almost always look alike? you ever seen this shit? it can't be a coincidence or a conscious decision by the owners to buy a mutt that resembles them because it's happening at a rate of like 95%it used to be a common observation too, jokes were made about it in the media, but ever since maybe the year 2000 when I've pointed it out I get the "huh?" look from people, like I'm a freak for noticing
>>42586018Appearance is cognitively constructed and not directly accessed. What you’re seeing is basically an illusory quirk based on the presumption that people are being photographed with a dog that belongs to them. They’re semantically linked in your head, so they’re ineffably similar in appearance in your mind’s eye.There’s also some mundane stuff going on:>if you give a dog matching sunglasses, then your matching sunglasses make you look similar>if you have blond hair and buy a “golden” dog, then your hair colour will look similar>less noticeably, spending time with anyone actually leads to muscle mimicry via behavioural mimicry, and over time it causes people who spend time around each other to look more similar. This is subtle, microscopic, yet real and proven… for humans. I assume it extends to our animal friends, too, insofar as they share a basic living organism body that’s comparable. Farm cats sometimes walk around like horses>people upload proof of this phenomena that is cherry-picked, leading to confirmation bias (ie, “we look similar because I selected this picture where we look most similar”)
People often naturally gravitate towards things that fit their own looks.In many cases art and artist have many similarities, they like vehicles that fit their style etc..I have narrow features and I like dogs and cats that look like that, for example Afghan hounds are great along with other long snout creatures. I like sports cars with sharp and streamlined designs.I fucking hate blocky trucks, bulky physiques and the look of flat faced animals like bulldogs and boxers, they're ugly as shit.My brother is the polar opposite of me in looks and his likes are the total opposite too.
>>42586054To add, focal length is one of the means by which two species can be made to look more similar. Transgenders often exploit this in photographs to appear more like the opposite sex, for instance. Lower focal length = more animalistic and feminine
>>42586054nice midwitsplaining but I'm talking about dog owners IRL, not the fucking picrel that was obviously stagedI just saw another 3 pairs of dog+owner lookalikes walk past my windows in the last hour. I've seen thousands and thousands of them all my life. And as I mentioned in the OP I'm not the only one who's noticed.
>>42586083Also, there’s the “domestication” syndrome, where selecting for domestication during breeding causes predictable physiological changes in a lineages evolution. Appearance connotes temperament, sociability, intelligence, etc. That’s why even babies are racists lolThough politically incorrect, it’s likely that domesticated men choose domesticated pets, plus the inverse. That obviously isn’t universal, since some women tend to pick dogs that have the traits they want in a partner (see: pitmommies that haven’t been mauled to death yet)
>>42586150Wow, 3 anecdotes? That proves a rule! Sorry for midwittingly insulting your clearly superior view. I’ll try to refrain from engaging with the concept in a meaningful way.
>>42586170many thousands, reallyand by all means fuck off, because all you're doing is a version of claiming that UFOs are really swamp gas and reflections from the moon
>>42586018>>cherrypicking some pics
>>42586054based knower>>42586150retarded faggot
>>42586188No, a better metaphor would be that you’re pointing at something resembling swamp gas and insisting it’s an unknown phenomenon, you intellectually lazy, sophomoric phony. People like you kill the fun of discussing the paranormal because you stubbornly refuse to engage with what constitutes normal in the first place.
I knew this was instantly gonna degenerate into a reaction thread. You people are so stupid.You think you can see through reptilian glamour magic in public but somehow your mystical sight fails you when it comes to the dog and owner phenomenon, then all of a sudden it's "UHMM AAASKSHUALLY."You're the reason countries had sterilization programs once.>>42586154>>42586317samefag
>>42586427I recognize that you’re lashing out due to insecurity, since knowledge threatens your flawed worldview, and apologize for putting you in such a state. Perhaps looking at dog pictures will cheer you up, champ?
>>42586427retard
>>42586018They're pack animals. Conform to the pack leader.
Something I noticed when I had cats is that they were similar in color to the floor of my house, as if they had come from it
>>42586018Dogs have actually evolved "human" expressions, so it's feasible that they have a solid "mirror neuron" thing going on, plus there's selection bias and confirmation bias, and for example the idea that say a 90lb granny usually doesn't go out adn buy a Presa Canario or Bullmastiff
>>42586150People also like to pick a dog that fits them in type, so that surely contributes (English Bulldog owners may well be fat and squat because they picked a dog with low exercise requirements (and even tolerance), an APBT owner (though the trend there has reversed) might be "lean" and wiry (and if they're the "typical" owner traditionally they have them for "game" activities or dogfighting so likely have an inherent "violence" to them)
I was listening to truther videos about 10 years ago and they said that there is an aspect of a dog soul that will take on aspects of their owner's or something along those lines. Thats why that happens so often.
got a hunch that most animals are blank slates until they absorb their companion's soul emissions.
>>42586018have notbut many couples look like siblings.
>>42586018ive noticed that dog people are less intelligent than any other type of pet owner, like its a marker for cognitive deficiency
>>42586150might be the owners personality projection, they choose a dog breed that aligns with their personality unwittingly, which could be the sameness youre seeing. as for morphological similitude, i dont think its biologically possible for a dogs face to change beyond its normal genetic expression
>>42590724Humans have a facultative mutualism with dogs that’s built upon the domestication behavioural gradients, including social receptivity, capacity to communicate, intelligence, etc. Intelligence itself unlocks higher layers of abstract reasoning, which allows increasingly sophisticated rapport and inter-special communication to develop.Interestingly, some AI startups are developing collars that model your dog’s brain, bark, and/or body motion and then translates input into meaning into English.But anyway, all of which is to say they aren’t really blank slates. Imprinting happens at birth, not adoption, and it’s not as significant a factor due to low override threshold. What they are is more sapient and less recognizably Pavlovian during conditioning. You can reason with them. They can trust you, and revoke that trust.It’s incredible. We don’t deserve dogs, and they’re only going to get better as we eugenics them selecting for cute, tame, smart, or useful.>inb4 “Canis sapiens” become real
