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Rodents trained to navigate within a virtual arena could, in return for a reward, activate the same neural patterns they’d shown while navigating—even when they were standing still. That suggests rodents can voluntarily access mental maps of places they’ve previously visited.
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Wouldn’t it be weirder if they couldn’t?
Some people still believe non human animals are mindless automatons.
Isn’t that weird, though? Like, we’ve all evolved from the same thing, and rats for example are similar enough that we can test various medicines on them and guesstimate how they’d affect humans. Obviously there are differences but when it comes to core functionality we’re all very similar.
I think it’s very weird and probably stems from the separation of human and nature that seems to accompany religious belief.
From wikipedia: In 2012, a group of neuroscientists signed the Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, which “unequivocally” asserted that "humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness. Non-human animals, including all mammals and birds, and many other creatures, including octopuses, also possess these neural substrates.
How can anyone who has a pet think tbat there’s noone in there?
