I hate experiments with animals.
The ones in laboratoriums. In cages. Starving, lonely, scared.

We are bloody monsters.

GG.


drrayeye Wrote:
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> Susan,
>
> I once carried out an experiment in a rat lab with
> a starving (very hungry) rat in a Skinner box. I
> placed the rat in the box with a feeder bin that
> could either be controlled by the rat (pushing on
> a lever)--or by me (pushing a button). At first,
> the rat circled the floor unaware of the
> lever/food association--so I pushed the button
> whenever the rat was in the vicinity of the
> feeding bin. One time the rat brushed against the
> lever with its tail and managed to elicit a food
> pellet.
>
> From then on, the rat stayed near the food bin and
> periodically rubbed its tail against the lever:
> superstitious behavior.
>
> In this case, superstitious behavior was failing
> to discern the appropriate connection between
> behavior and reward, but, luckily, making an
> inappropriate response that was associated with
> the reward.
>
> Are you saying that my Christianity (or any
> organized Religion) is the wrong (superstitious)
> behavior that finds the reward anyway--or that
> there is no reward?
>
> Ray



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