Dissociation between cat brain and cat's anatomy
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
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5 Comments:
what's up with that cat's tail?
Thu Aug 24, 02:30:38 PM CDT
Is there any explanation for this?
Thu Aug 24, 10:13:10 PM CDT
If you assume that the cat doesn't really have the capacity for "understanding" why it feels like something is on its side, then it's just going to follow an "avoid the thing that's touching me" strategy until nothing's there anymore. I guess it's just a stimulus-response kind of thing. Old-school behaviorists would poop themselves over this kind of result, but of course, it doesn't work with people.
That'd be cool though, if you could put tape on your back to help you walk to class faster...
Sat Aug 26, 01:31:29 AM CDT
i think it's possible to interpret these behaviors as resulting from something as simple as "pain minimization" - if you assume that the tape causes these hairs to be pulled, and that hair-pulling is painful, then the movements are easily seen as minimizing the amount the taped hairs move. But I might be missing something.
Mon Aug 28, 01:14:56 PM CDT
I had a roommate who had a cat, and I had some weak scotch tape. Frankly put, I taped the cat after watching this video. The tape came off really, really easily-- it was actually harder to make it stick in some areas. So in my case, the cat wasn't hurting since the tape barely stuck. However, the cat did move the same exact way as in the video anyway. So I think I'm going for the "not-knowing what's touching me" behavioral explanation...
Thu Aug 31, 11:27:41 PM CDT
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