Rats and the proof - It's the Muscles that are the seat of learning and Behaviour not the Mind!
He looked across at the
wooden scaffolding.
“Is that where they are? Under there?” The other man nodded. Now the two men and the teenage boy alongside them
stood in the back garden looking at the wooden scaffolding.
“It
must be the heat makes them rats breed so much,” the teenage boy contemplated.
Kit turned, walked
quickly to the chicken run, opened the wire netting gate, removed the covering
tarpaulin; picked up the corpse and returned to them. “Look! Murdering
bastards.”
The victim in Kit’s hand,
it might be said, had been caught in evolution's trap. For flightless birds in
the face of the predator can only squawk in their terror and then, like man’s
early attempts to fly, perform a ridiculous blustering to get off the ground.
Post this mad fluster of feathers for lift-off; exhausted they are returned by
gravity to terra firma to stand
defenceless against one of nature’s brute offspring, the rat.
At this time, on the
other side of the world in that Californian laboratory, white coated figures had
ascertained that rats’ teeth never stop growing; that male rats are more
content when there is a female around; that they have ‘abundance bias’ and like
some humans will kill when not necessary; that they are either incontinent, or
they just don’t care; that there are probably ten of them for every one of us
and that they like to live close to humans.
So they decided to test
those ‘little guys’ through a labyrinthine like maze, which the rats mastered
with ease; equally the rats steered their way through the maze without the aid
of sight, then without hearing or smell they sill negotiated the complicated
maze. However, when tested after the maze had been shortened, the rats ran into
the end of the reduced maze like trains hitting buffers which made the
scientists exclaim; “Hey, maybe it’s the muscles that are the seat of learning
and behaviour and not the ‘mind’.”
No comments:
Post a Comment