Anonymous
8/25/2025, 5:00:41 AM
No.82292989
>>82291943
Behaviorist here. "Hope" does not exist. What happened in this study is one rat got a behavioral adjustment where it was conditioned to think that further action could avoid the threat of death and the other rat wasn't.
A creature is capable of over exerting itself beyond usual limitations if sufficiently prompted but the aftermath usually involves suffering damage as a result. Torn muscles, heart spasms, collapsed lungs, etc. There is nothing magical happening here. If the other rat had been rescued as opposed to being let drown I would wager that it would have suffered some sort of physical damage as I have described.
The only tragedy from this study is that it's results were interpreted rather stupidly by people trying to shoehorn in some self help book tier moral judgements.
But one cannot realistically always over exert themselves at every task. They would quickly wear themselves down and suffer permanent injury from doing so.
Behaviorist here. "Hope" does not exist. What happened in this study is one rat got a behavioral adjustment where it was conditioned to think that further action could avoid the threat of death and the other rat wasn't.
A creature is capable of over exerting itself beyond usual limitations if sufficiently prompted but the aftermath usually involves suffering damage as a result. Torn muscles, heart spasms, collapsed lungs, etc. There is nothing magical happening here. If the other rat had been rescued as opposed to being let drown I would wager that it would have suffered some sort of physical damage as I have described.
The only tragedy from this study is that it's results were interpreted rather stupidly by people trying to shoehorn in some self help book tier moral judgements.
But one cannot realistically always over exert themselves at every task. They would quickly wear themselves down and suffer permanent injury from doing so.