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“Poor guy, I’ve only got one leash, while he’s got eight or nine, on every part of his body!”
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“Fooled?” Maybe, but hard to get inside the dog’s mind.
If a human interacts with a humanoid robot does that mean they thought it was a real human? Or does it mean they were fascinated to meet something that acted human but clearly wasn’t?
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both are just extensions of their humans.
(of course the real doggy is much more than that.)
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definitly. its quite obvious. /e ah, mmmmmhhh, ok, maybe youre right.
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“Hey! Your butt didn’t smell real!”
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Have you ever seen how little kids react to someone with a puppet?
Most of them understand on some level that the puppet is a character “brought to life” by a puppeteer, yet fundamentally different than a flesh-and-blood being. That doesn’t diminish how excited they are to meet and interact with those puppets. We could be seeing the dog version of that interaction.
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yep, guess youre right. wasnt thinking enough about it, could absolutly be.
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One of my favorite stories about the Muppets was the time Jim Henson went on some late night talk show to be interviewed as Kermit and during the commercial break the sound guys asked him if he could speak up louder because they were having trouble picking him up on the boom mic.
Turned out that they were instinctively pointing the microphone at the puppet instead of Henson. Even we big-brained apes can easily let ourselves get swept up in the illusion! 
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'ey, that puppeteer is pretty damn good! if i didn’t see the strings (‘on me’) i could be fooled.
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Well, the trick is, the dog is real, the strings are fake.
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Because why not.
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