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EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 3 days agoA conditioned non-response as a response? The frog that’s gradually boiled so as not to notice its impending fate?
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EffortlessEffluvium@lemm.ee 3 days agoA conditioned non-response as a response? The frog that’s gradually boiled so as not to notice its impending fate?
Objection@lemmy.ml 3 days ago
It’s not a trained response. The story goes that frogs won’t jump out of a pot of water as long as the heat is raised gradually. There’s no classical conditioning involved at all (and the connection of “classical conditioning is Stalinist” is also quite a leap).
As an aside, I’ve heard that story isn’t actually true, but it makes for a decent metaphor. There are other examples of similar things in nature, like weasels will hunt rabbits by doing a “dance” full of confusing motions all over the place as they gradually inch closer to the rabbit, avoiding the rabbit’s flight of flight response.