Psi: How Open Minded are You Really?

[bennyboy]

(it would be immensely difficult, in any case, to determine that superstition was any more or less harmful than doing nothing - as a general operating principle, in any case...if only for the propenderance of creatures whose first survival instinct is precisely that, -do nothing...don't move, don't twitch, cut out that breathing shit to a minimum

Except that this IS doing something. And the animals that respond to this will respond to unknown stimuli as though they represent something dangerous: they'll likely freeze, for example, when my cell phone rings.

A true non-action in a behavioral sense would mean that animals would simply carry on as normal, no matter what new and mysteries circumstances were presented to them. And that, for sure, is a recipe for extinction. Just ask the dodos.