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surely the maze situation is best explained by the first rats leaving a scent trail behind, which would be easy to follow for the next rat?
by s_kilk 11y ago
surely the maze situation is best explained by the first rats leaving a scent trail behind, which would be easy to follow for the next rat?
- alphydan 11y agoI don't know how sound that data was, but in one of the cases the rats were solving a maze on the other side of the world (Australia) ... and yet started solving it better than the first rats in the UK. I'm not sure what the conclusion or the methodological error is. But it's not as simple as you paint it. [0] http://www.sheldrake.org/about-rupert-sheldrake/blog/rat-learning-and-morphic-resonance http://www.sheldrake.org/about-rupert-sheldrake/blog/rat-lea...
- theoh 11y agoThis would be an example of stigmergy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmergy