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Watching the birds in the garden, I find myself wondering about their inner life. Why does a bird decide to do what it does? If it's sitting on the fence and nothing apparently changes, why does it decide at a particular point to fly away? They're not just instinct response machines, I think. Do birds get bored? Do they post on bird twitter about the blob sitting at the black oblong and why she suddenly gets up to do something else?
in reply to Alexandra Lanes

Obv I have no insight into a bird's inner state though I'd be unsurprised if they had at least some emotional existence. But one can posit things that incentivise it to move without needing to invoke boredom.

Like it's got hungry enough that it's gone off to feed; or some kind of patrolling setup where it wants to check each of several territories at least so often. Or it's spotted something that you or I wouldn't notice - perhaps overhearing calls of another bird?