"The experiment got under way in January, 1958. For the first few months, the rats seemed content in their apartment-like dwellings. But then, once again, thing

"The experiment got under way in January, 1958. For the first few months, the rats seemed content in their apartment-like dwellings. But then, once again, things took a dystopic turn. Calhoun had laid out the rooms asymmetrically. The two cells in the center each had two entrances; those on the ends had just one. Dominant males assumed control of the easier-to-defend cells and allowed only a select group of females to enter them. This forced the other rats into the central cells, where order gradually broke down. Dispensing with the courtship rituals that usually precede mating, mid-cell male rats took to simply trying to mount females, or even other males. Aggression increased; at times, Calhoun wrote, “it was impossible to enter a room without observing fresh blood splattered about.” Central-cell females basically gave up on mothering. They built inadequate nests or none at all. When disturbed, they would start to move their babies, only to then abandon them. The pup mortality rate in the crowded cells rose to as high as ninety-six per cent. Calhoun came up with a new term to describe the process he had witnessed. The rats, he said, had fallen into a “behavioral sink.”" "Calhoun imagined “thinking prostheses” that would connect “more and more individuals in a common communication network.” When the compassionate revolution came, he wrote, it would “mark the termination of the past 50,000-year epic of evolution.”" "He decided to try to engineer the “conceptual evolution” of rats with an experimental setup that would force the animals to coöperate to get at food and water." "The agency had been restructured and had a new focus on practical results. It cut his funding and eventually evicted him from his rat-experiment space." "“No evidence” for behavioral sinks has ever “been found in wild populations of animals—rat, mouse, or otherwise,” Dugatkin writes." IMO, the bureaucrats were scared by the eerie parallels to our lifestyle. Dugatkin said that no such degenerate behavior was observed in the wild animals, but he forgets to say that wild animals don't live packed in concrete hives. Calhoun is also right about that compassionate revolution, that will create a united humanity and will mark the end of the human evolution and the beginning of the post human evolution, just like the development of mind separated the animal and human evolutions. At the moment, humanity is a lot like a brain in which neurons form coalitions to fight each other. If humanity was a person, it would say "we are many and we are at war with ourselves," but when it says "I" it will be the end of this age. Calhoun was wrong, though, that the existing society can be forced to unite. Such a force would create a tyranny at best. All these futures are possible simultaneously. First, a large part of the existing population will gradually slide into that behavioral-sink. Then a large part of what's left will form a tyranny. Finally, the remaining part will create the free union.