What Rats can teach us about being human. Rats contain morality, their stress response is controlled by motherly love, they are tickly and giggly, and lastly they bond better with those they are in synch with.
Same -- at least this one is a considerably more helpful rec to me than the time youtube gave me a presentation by a japanese higher maths professor (yes, all _in_ japanese)
Wizard Doctor Professor Tori Arnold PhD I wish to inform you that I am not going to take notes as I am not taking your class but I do want to know why rats are lil guys.
"Life isn't just about passing on your genes. We can leave behind much more than just DNA. Through speech, music, literature and movies...what we've seen, heard, felt...anger, joy and sorrow...these are the things I will pass on. That's what I live for. We need to pass the torch, and let our children read our messy and sad history by its light.We have all the magic of the digital age to do that with. The human race will probably come to an end some time, and new species may rule over this planet. Earth may not be forever, but we still have the responsibility to leave what traces of life we can. Building the future and keeping the past alive are one and the same thing." -From Metal Gear Solid 2
I thought this getting recommended to me was a symptom of having to watch my professors online lectures. But everyone in the comments is just as confused as I am god bless
Genetics are just the hard limits of an organism, epigenetics actually correlate better with differences between individuals. And then we have the M I C R O B I O M E. So much more to research!
Idk, genetics explain really well traits and behavior on monozygotic twins, even when they are reared apart. Epigenetics is really interesting but it is becoming almost like a buzzword
Alternate universe ID 9778 Jerma spent his younger years playing with frogs and investigating biology. He graduated with a PHD and posts his eclectic lectures on youtube
Had two rats as pets, Pandora and Psyche. Both females, both not cool with Allister the Male. Both of them beat him up because he was way too chill. Pandora loved people and Psyche loved exploring. In my head they were a lesbian couple because they beat up any guy rat. I miss them greatly poking out of my hoodie.
2:47 that plant is so cool, my grandfather would of loved it. He was the smartest man ive ever met. died 8 years ago at age 100. He was a geologist who was contracted out by the airforce for project blue book and other weird projects no one will believe me about..after he was done with that he moved to cali and opened a flower shop. He went on to..idk the word for it, invent? 158 new flowers and plants, all of them named after my mom and grandmother. He also loved biology. He would of loved this channel. Very cool video. Do you make alot of this content?
I'm posting my whole Human Biology Class to start and then I have other lectures I want to make that I can't fit into the classes I teach. Enjoy the content, I'll be making more. Your grandpa sounds awesome, would have loved him! Thanks for sharing.
arent you a rat named mouse? It's okay I still love you either way. One time I rescued a mouse from the basement of my work and fed it hella food for 3 years like a king until it passed.
@@toreyarnold My username comes from my first pet, which was a baby rat I randomly grabbed up from the attic. Being barely 4 years old, I assumed it was a mouse and gave it the incredibly clever name of "mouse". Rats are my favorite animals, and make faaaantastic pets! Anyhoo, I'll be checking out the rest of your channel, toodles!
I'm posting the whole class so you can! Enjoy. I'll be making some additional content too of weird lectures I want to give but can't fit into my classes anywhere. Thanks for watching!
Learned something. synchronization bonding is a totally new concept to me. I always assumed it to be hormone signaling, which I'm sure of playing a role as well. Thanks for sharing.
Peanut!! One of my current boys is named Peanut!! After getting tons of extra attention before and after a tumor surgery, he's gotten so much more affectionate! He used to be mildly skittish
Whaddup doctah Tee. It seems you have hit my suggestions page. I didn't know about the lick study! I have only skimmed the "discussion" part of the study "Parental olfactory experience influences behavior and neural structure in subsequent generations" by Brian G Dias and Kerry J Ressler and I find it insanely interesting. Like many studies, I don't know if it was done correctly or has been replicated. What do you think about this study? Also, I'm only a RU-vid level scientist XD Somehow they let me out of highschool with only 2 science credits, and its only been RU-vid since then ^_^
Looks like the synchronized rodents had one rodent that was super interested in the other and the other wasn’t that into him, but the fixated rodent wouldn’t take no for an answer. Same thing happened with the other pair but the interested rodent took the hint and disengaged.
I've thought like this for a while. It occurred to me while walking in Hermanus. I was walking along the coast, tripping on psylocibin, and feeling that I was being watched by little people. This is because South Africa is famous for it's diversity of humanoid creatures, such as Homo Naledi. South Africa has the most diverse collection of anthropomorphic fossils. I then realized that the "little people" watching me were actually just Dassies, little rat-like creatures that are most closely related to elephants. The fact that an Elephant and a Dassie can be so closely related made me think about how all mammals have the same bone sets and topology, essentially being stretched and shrunken versions of each other, and if a human was shrunk to that size they would probably be as intelligent as a rodent and walk on all fours, so Dassies are basically little people. It's all completely meaningless semantics of course, but it's just the realization of interconnectedness and the lack of separation between human made categories.
@@TommyLikeTom deep thoughts. I like how you think. Thanks for sharing. Pretty nifty to see how we are all just skin and bones mushed around into different forms. Thanks billion of years for your service to sculpting us!
Just playing devil’s advocate but how do you know the rats let the mice win fights from time to time because of morality and not just because if they keep beating the mouse it won’t fight anymore?
Solid question, and I can't say I know how they got to that statement per se. Armchair rationalizing it though, I'd posit that morality can be reduced to a similar positive feedback loop. That in the simplest form of morality people act morally as there's incentive to do so, either directly or indirectly, delayed or near instant. A more abstracted view of morality is "doing the right thing" which in turn-- and I can't say I know why/the mechanism-- elicits positive emotions or squashes the negative emotions of someone suffering, a brain chemistry incentive.
Whilst it’s only anecdotal experience with some rescue rats I’ve had as pets, it takes a long time for an anxious rat to change its behaviour, ultimately it was a combination of factors that led to their rehabilitation, the most important thing that allowed me to help these rats was an understanding what specifically caused the behaviour. Helping an abused rat vs a neglected rat learn to feel safe required different approaches as they had very different triggers specific to their past experiences. That is one of the most important things for humans to do too as the specific causation for symptoms radically alters the way you treat and resolve those symptoms. For instance, some people with ADHD have anxiety and depression symptoms (including severe symptoms like su*cidal ideation) which are a consequence of their brain being permanently dopamine deficient. Thusly, symptoms resolve when they take ADHD medication like Vyvanse. However, if your anxiety is related to C-PTSD or a cluster b disorder like Borderline Personality Disorder it’s essential that a professional is involved to provide you with psychotherapy as both those conditions are predominantly consequences of childhood trauma that result in maladaptive behaviours and thought patterns that need to be identified, deconstructed and then (with the help of a psychologist or psychiatrist) replaced with new behaviours and mindsets that can better enable you to experience inner peace and thrive in life. Additionally, some depression and anxiety isn’t necessarily a “disorder” and is actually just a proportional response to extremely unfortunate living circumstance. In such a scenario the best assistance is support for improving one’s socioeconomic conditions/career planning and/or if lack of interpersonal connections is a major source of grief pursing goals that give you opportunities to form genuine friendships with other people. There are some psychologists who can assist people in difficult situations and help brainstorm and plan how to go about fixing your life. Ultimately, the most important thing you can do is try and figure out the likely causation for your symptoms and seek out a professional diagnosis, especially if you’re unable to identify the cause on your own. It’s impossible to treat a symptom without knowing its cause, particularly when that symptom is present in so many different conditions. One thing that remained true for every rescue rat I’ve had was their need for compassion and patience, healing takes time and every little bit of progress is worthy of celebration, so be sure to afford all of that to yourself whilst you find a way to heal.
Wonderful Wizard, thank you for your contribution to RU-vid. I loved the mention of epigenetics and how it manifests in rats; in fact, it helped solidify the concept of epigenetics and how it appears in the real world for me. I predict that cats may have a similar correlation involving licks and anxiety levels since people often groom motherless kittens with toothbrushes, but I may need to look into that further. I reallyyyyyy love rats, so this video really stuck out to me. Once again, thank you for this gift of knowledge!
"Rats contain morality" No, morality requires thinking. This is not that surprising. Wouldn't it be evolutionarily useful for young rats to receive information about the stress level of their mother (fewer licks, mom is probably more stressed) and adapt their own behaviour accordingly? So, still genetically determined, just also responsive to the environment.
Wizard Dr. Professor Torey Arnold, Ph.D., this is an amazing video. Thank you. I will be getting a rat now. Where would you like me to submit my notes? I am not in your class but do not wish to disappoint the Wizard Doctor Maximus Supreme himself. I am going to name my rat Tramp and get him a little rat top hat (Fig. 1, my future rat Tramp) 🎩 🐭 I hope you can see why i plan to do this based on my diagram in Fig. 1. (Fig. 2, projected stock price of rats after this video) 📈
Mate, you are telling me that this random figure of speech 'to be on the same wavelength' has actually some truth to it irl...? That is insane. Actually, what if these 'wavelengths' sync up the more time you spend with someone you are already pretty friendly with... I feel like that might be the case but alas we can't put leds nilly willy in human brains yet to research that haha
Strong pass. The existance of a mostly capitalist hergemon beyond the year 1900 is what led the main split in marxism since it was inherently contractictory to his predictions.
@@ordinaryrat Capitalism is unfolding like he predicted idk what you are talking about. The worldwide revolutions happened too early, the conditions werent met to move forward
@@eutiger4789 Nah. Marx predicted that capitalism would have been like an ouroboros and by 1900 you would have large revolutions around the world. This was wrong. The main place with a succesful revolution was Russia (in the early 1900s), which was the opposite of what Marx predicted as well. Russia was capitalist but didn't have anywhere near of the exploitative practices of the western european nations (the rebellion was against the tsar not as much against the capitalists). What Marx ultimately got wrong is that the capitalist ruling class would placate the poor by giving them small and mostly trivial gains over time. This ended up being more profitable then either giving the workers a lot or giving the workers nothing.
@@ordinaryrat I don't even know how to respond to this incoherent sentence about what marx got wrong. Just so you know the only thing marx predicted wrong is that revolution would happen first in first world countries
