POV is not realistic
POV is an interesting concept. Every individual human has its own unique POV that simply cannot be understood by another human in shape or form. Yet we as humans are self-absorbed. We cannot see how the world is perceived by everything else. Everything else you ask? Well of course I mean animals. Animals probably view each other in different ways to us humans. Some are so inherently dependent on each other for their survival that they must view their lives in a specific way.
Take the life of a fly for example such creatures don’t choose a way to live. They live by a simple set of commands, sleep, eat, reproduce and die. Though their eyes can see over 1,678 different angles they can’t appear to look past themselves. Perhaps that is why they are unwaveringly prevalent in our world today. So they would take the perspective of a first person in their life story. Such is nature in that it offers different ways to view the world.
Though take something social such as an elephant who often relies on their companionship in their herds for their continued survival allows them to view the world from the perspective of the first person and the perspective of the third person. In fact, in order to express their ideas to one another scientists find they have specific words that mimic the words I and you instead of general noises that we used to assume they make. With memory that is only ten percent less capacity than a humans it is no wonder they have created their own individual language. For reference our closest animal relatives the chimpanzee only has around 40% of our memory capacity.
This great and all but the pressing question is that what animal has the most complex language to be able to capture the ideas of first, second and third person. It is not an orca or a dolphin but a resident of the plains of Wyoming. Did you guess? It’s a prairie dog. These small creatures have created a language that is able to accurately articulate every single perspective that was mentioned earlier. But the development of this language is based on necessity. Europeans arrived around 220 years ago and began hunting the cute animals into near extinction. This resulted in the overwhelming need to communicate with each other to prevent their exploitation by predators. In fact they have a specific “jump-yip” to indicate the presence of humans in their surroundings. The video below will accurately explain the mind blowing complexity of these small creaturess
I understand this loosely connects to the idea of perspective but we often lack perpective and nature is often forgotten as a way of finding complexity. Whatever that’s so supposed to mean anyway.
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