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It's hard to proof that an animal understands time, without that animal understanding numerical values of time. Our dogs and cats certainly know when a short duration of time has past but they have no idea what 5 minutes means. I can tell my dog to 'stay', and he'll show a basic understanding time passing. If I tell him to count for ten seconds and then come to me, he'd be screwed. But counting and math are two diferent things.
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"The physical body is acknowledged as dust, the personal drama as delusion. It is as if the world we perceive through our senses, that whole gorgeous and terrible pageant, were the breath-thin surface of a bubble, and everything else, inside and outside, is pure radiance. Both suffering and joy come then like a brief reflection, and death like a pin" Stephen Mitchell
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