MAY 30 "RATS & PEOPLE BEHAVE THE SAME?"

Many years earlier, the psychologist B.F. Skinner had devised the operant conditioning chamber or “Skinner Box” in which a lever press by an animal triggered either a reinforcing stimulus such as delivery of food or water, or a punishing stimulus like a painful foot shock. Olds and Milner soon adapted the chamber so that a lever press would deliver direct brain stimulation through the implanted electrodes. What resulted was perhaps the most dramatic experiment in the history of behavioral neuroscience; rats would press the lever as many as 7,000 times per hour to stimulate their brains.
They weren't stimulating a “curiosity center” at all-- this was a reward circuit, the activation of which was much more powerful than any natural stimulus. ~A series of amazing experiments revealed that rats preferred reward circuit stimulation to food (even when they were hungry) and water (even when they were thirsty).
Self-stimulating male rats would ignore a female in heat and would repeatedly cross foot shock-delivering flood grids to reach the lever.
Female rats would abandon their newborn nursing pups to continually press the lever. Some rats would self-stimulate 2,000 times per hour for 24 hours, to the exclusion of all other activities.
They had to be unhooked from the apparatus to prevent starvation!
Those conducting the experiment had to unhook the rats from the apparatus to prevent starvation.

What this reveals is human nature is not far from this behavior as we have witnessed first hand and do we think that this side of our nature is not going to be exploited by the Devil and secondly, do we think that the Devil would ever “unhook” us from the apparatus and/or bondage/addiction to prevent starvation? Just look around and you will see the answer to that.

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