Scooter going through it.
I’d say no, knowledge that we will some day die is unique to humans.
They certainly experience ennui though.
Now I wonder about elephants given that they have funerals and mourn their dead.
Same with crows.
“It’s so weird. I shit in the box, and then the next day it’s just, gone. Where does it go? Who is stealing my poop?”
Of COURSE they do. Hell they feel existential dread towards things that aren’t even there. Its just that their body language is so different from ours, that we don’t usually recognize it.
Hell just staring into an unfamiliar cat’s eyes can give it a case of the screaming jibblies.
Furball ennui
Cats can’t read Hegel nor Nietzsche, so I say no, they can’t experience existential dread.
No. But they do wonder if they should buy a boat.
