(March 22, 2015 at 8:49 pm)bennyboy Wrote: 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.
There's a lot of insight here.
