<p>In CR section2, in the passage about dog's scent perception for questions 10 to 14,
there was a sentence like this:</p>
<p>"A dog who did comparative psychology might easily worry about our consciousness or lack thereof just as we worry about the consciousness of a squid." lines 8-11</p>
<p>I could not understand what it was talking about; what is comparative psychology?
How's this sentence related to the whoel passage, at least the first paragraph?</p>
<p>Thanx in advance :)</p>
<p>Which test is it in?</p>
<p>Wait, I just found it online.</p>
<p>To understand the sentence, look at it in context. It is not necessary to know what comparative psychology is. For the record, it is the study of the psychology of non-human animals. But to understand the sentence, look at it in context. </p>
<p>“But for dogs, scenting is believing. A dog’s nose is to ours as the wrinkled surface of our complex brain is to the surface of an egg.” </p>
<p>The entire passage is talking about dogs’ sense of smell compared to humans’. Our sense of smell is so much weaker than that of dogs. Now imagine if a dog was studying humans, using their sense of smell as a baseline for intelligence, we would appear so weak that we would be practically unconscious. This is analogous to the way we study squid using our own intelligence as a baseline, then question the squid’s consciousness.</p>
<p>The sentence is basically reenforcing the ideas of the previous paragraph using the interesting metaphor of consciousness.</p>
<p>OMG Thanx kestrel24!</p>
<p>i think u r a genius ;)</p>