re: #257 looking closely

Bullshit. I don’t even believe the premise of this piece (eg that EVERY rat on the planet simultaneously improved in maze-running simultaneously). Its garbage.

But even assuming your second bit about monkeys is true, it means zero.

The fact that animal “A” in place “A” learns something and animal “B” in place “B” learns the same thing DOES NOT prove the existence of any kind of magical “field”.

By analogy, if I learn how to program my VCR and Bob from Ottawa learns how to program HIS VCR, why do you need to invoke some “field effect” to explain this? Its ridiculous.

If there really WERE some sort of extra-dimensional awareness linking all animals of a species, then EVERYONE would know how to program VCRs!

OK. Quick example then I have to run. Remember David Bannister the runner.
Up until 1940 or whatever year it was, nobody and I mean nobody was able to break the 4 minute mile. This went on on hundreds of years. Then one day, Bannister ran and broke the 4 minute mile. A new M-field was then created and soon thereafter many runners were breaking the 4 minute mile. It was no longer the huge barrier it had been. And don’t tell me they started doing weights…