Animal free will Tomoe Kusubae

     I think people treat animal right lightly.  However they also have free will as The Story of Janet mention.  In this blogging, I consider the reason why people pay no attention to animals’ free will and show the proof of animal free will.


      According to Allen and Linda Anderson, though so many people see animals as souls, the 53 percents of the people can take care of an animal in their home and not see a soul there.  Even if they have pets, they don’t recognize that their pets have emotions.  There are many reasons why they have such an idea.  As one reason, I show what has been long established was an animal poked in just such a way will react with the same response every time(Jason Palmer).  People thought animals didn’t have mixed feelings even if they spend much time with animals.



     However, animals can learn.  To show the effects of operant conditioning, B. F. Skinner created the Skinner box, operant conditioning chamber.   A rat or other suitably small animal is placed in a typical Skinner box, and observed during learning trials that use operant conditioning principles.  They come to press a lever for food.  When they feel hungry, they can keep off hunger.  In addition to that, they can distinguish the real substance and artificial one.  A gorilla answered that the flower in the picture is not real flowers.  The trainer said a flower to her but she pointed the real flower and told her that the real flower is “flower”.  As those examples, they understand many things so we have to recognize their free will.