RE: Psi: How Open Minded are You Really?
March 23, 2015 at 1:50 pm
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2015 at 1:53 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 22, 2015 at 8:49 pm)bennyboy Wrote: Except that this IS doing something.I know right...like I said, nothing is a funny word.
Quote: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.Yup.
Quote: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.Or the religious/superstitious?
(mind you, I maintain that it's very difficult to make a claim like the one we're teasing out, that something is more or less beneficial, without some specific circumstance involved...and that on this basis there's likely to be a selective pressure involved -or even that selective pressure is an efficient explanation for whatever it is we see)
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