>>48435673>The Pokedex only mentions that Dragonite has human level intelligencefor all other pokemon, the absence of evidence does not prove absence of evidence. => the pokedex is an incomplete set of information and we cannot conclude the level of intelligence based on missing information.
>Alakazam acting like a stray dogif you created an artificial intelligence as smart or smarter as a human, but with the behavior of a stray dog, would it not be still as intelligent as a human? must it be viewed as a beast, because it behaves similar to what we know, or should it be viewed with a completely different classification?
judging intelligence/sentience on the basis of what we know is fallible when talking about something that evolved completely independently of anything we know.
>present more untamed and wild aspects of the Pokemon and it's not the same as PMD. Even taking PMD into account they have nothing on the society of ZootopiaSame problem as with Alakazam acting like a stray dog.
We don't know what triggers the reward systems in their brain, but from what we do know, it seems like acting like a pet and living in nature seems to be a very rewarding lifestyle for them.
>>48436123>meowth has proven that all of them at least have the capacity to become sapientnot just the capacity. meowth proves they already have sapiency and sentience. humans simply don't understand their language.
the newest movie even goes so far that humans who bother to learn their language can talk to pokemon perfectly.
it's obvious that the pokemon have the intelligence of humans. they simply chose to live a different life than humans do.
saying pokemon are beasts because they act like beasts, would be equal to saying "my weird neighbor who chose to live in a cave in the forest is a beast, not a human"
