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Why do human scientists force mice to find their way through strange mazes ?
by tgflynn 5y ago
Why do human scientists force mice to find their way through strange mazes ?
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y agoYou've basically re-invented capricious elves and pixies. It's an exercise in medievalist superstition dressed up in a cheap sci-fi veneer. Waste of time.
- JulianMorrison 5y agoWait until you dig into the lore on capricious elves and pixies and realise that it overlaps UFO lore in the kinds of weirdness it contains, despite being recorded by people separated by centuries, continents, and cultures.
- gadf 5y agoExactly. "The Phenomena" is sort of all encompassing. I think that's an interesting thread that's come out recently. Jeremy Corbell advances the idea (not the first to, tho) that things like ghosts, consciousness, the multiverse and ETs are all connected. In some sense it's easily dismissed as "trivially lumping together all things we don't understand" and calling it "quantum". But on another level there does seem to be overlap: in types of experiences, places they happen, and other things I don't know about.
- arcanon 5y agoWhen I built mazes for gene knockout mice, we did it for addiction/pain research. The mazes themselves are really cool. You get to program all these little doors and sequences. Come for the research, stay for the fun.