>>40170968if my dog is wagging its tail bc i am about to feed it, i could say that it "hopes" to be fed. but the dog can't be literally said to "hope" like we hope (how do we humans demonstrate hope?). in the same way, we could say that animals who choose same-sex pairing are "gay." but these animals are certainly not gay in the same way that a gay human man or woman is gay
you learned the concept "hope," like you learned the concept "gay," when you learned how to speak. we are projecting post-symbolic consciousness onto pre-symbolic animals