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RE: 2 Thought Experiments to Forever change the way you Look at the World + Philosophy Discussion

in #philosophy7 years ago

Interesting, reminds me of a very famous experiment involving some cats.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7174898/

"For this work, the duo divided a pack of kittens into two cohorts, the horizontal group and the vertical group. As you can probably guess, the vertical group was raised in a world consisting entirely of vertical lines: the wallpaper inside their cages was black-and-white stripes running floor to ceiling, and the people handling and feeding them wore either solid colors or vertical stripes as well. As a result, these cats saw nothing but vertical lines for the first several weeks of their lives. Meanwhile, other cats were raised in cages lined with (and handled by people wearing exclusively) horizontal stripes, and this group never saw vertical lines.
The results was startling. Cats raised in one environment were blind—literally blind—to any lines running the “other” way. Cats raised in a horizontal world, for instance, could see the seats of chairs just fine and would jump up onto them to nap. But they couldn’t see the chair’s legs at all and were constantly banging into them. The vertical-world cats had the opposite problem. They weaved around the chair legs like champs but could never find a cozy spot to snooze.
These experiments provided some of the first and best evidence for the existence of “critical windows” in brain development. The basic idea is that the brain, which is plastic when young, must be exposed to certain sights early in life or it will remain blind to those sights forever."

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-food/201404/the-cat-nobel-prize-part-ii

Take it for what you will.

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Thanks a lot for the info. I think pretty much the same can be said about PC-SJW safe spaces and parents and teachers creating entitled snowflakes. These kids are going to destroy the society they inhibit. It's like letting a poor sighted person driving the bus. It's bound to crash.

One must learn all aspects and choose the right path. Anything else is a house of cards. Thanks for stopping by. 100% upvoted.

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