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ANIMALS AS SENTIENT BEINGS, THOUGH PARADOXICALLY,
THIS OFTEN EXPOSES THE ANIMALS TO RATHER UNPLEASANT LABORATORY TESTS!
FOR EXAMPLE, PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANIES ROUTINELY USE RATS AS EXPERIMENTAL SUBJECTS
IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ANTIDEPRESSANTS? According to one widely used protocol, you take a hundred rats
(for statistical reliability) and place each rat inside a glass tube filled with water. The rats struggle again & again
to climb out of the tubes, without succes. After 15 minutes most give up & stop moving?! They just float in this
tube, apathic to their surroundings!? You now take another 100 rats, throw them in, but fish them out of their
tube after 14 minutes, just before they are about to despair! You dry them, feed them, give them a little rest -
and then throw them back in... The second time, most rats struggle for 20 minutes before calling it quits. Why
these extra 6 minutes? Because the memory of past success triggers the release of some biochemical in their
brain that gives the rats hope ànd delays the advent of despair. Ìf wé cóuld only isolate this biochemical, we
might use it as an antidepressant for humans. But numerous chemical flood a rat's brain any given moment!
How can wé pinpoint thé rìght óne? For this you take more groups of rats, who have never participated in the
tèst befóre. You inject each group with a particular chemical, which you suspect to be the hoped-for anti-
depressant! You throw the rats into the water: if rats injected with chemical A struggle for only 15 minutes
before becoming depressed, you can cross out A on your list. If rats injected with chemical B go on thrashing
for 20 minutes, you can tell the CEO & the shareholders that you might have just hit the jackpot?! Sceptics
could object that this entire description needlessly humanizes rats!? Rats experience neither hope nor despair.
Sometimes rats move quickly & sometimes they stand still, but they never feel anything?! They are driven only
by non-conscious algorithms. Yet ìf só, what's the point of all these experiments? Psychiatric drugs are aimed to
induce changes not just in human behaviour, but above all in human FEELING! When customers go to a
psychiatrist & say, 'DOCTOR, GIVE ME SOMETHING THAT WILL LIFT ME OUT OF THIS DEPRESSION!', they don't
want a mechanical stimulant that will cause them to flail about while still feeling blue! They want to FEEL
cheerful! Conducting experiments on rats a.s.o. can help corporations develop such a magic pill only if they ìf
they presuppose that 'rat behaviour' is accompanied by human-like emotions! And indeed, this is a common
presupposition in psychiatric laboratories... Aren't we all like most of those other animals, plants, humans &
'gods' in our daily struggles to survive? Most bible stories are about strangers in the night that dream, wake
up & adopt African, Australian, Asian, European & American, Assyrian & Babylonian, Chaldean habits like drug-
like influences through temperature, locations, rivers, mountains, valleys, seas, oceans, continents & 'states of
mind'! Eating, drinking, picking, smoking, swimming, flying, walking, talking, tasting, mixing, fixing & trying out
in order to survive, grow, live, love, hate, fight, learn, discover, experiment & 'develop' one way or another........
If Mòr Chai Set Asih and so on travel in body in mind, 'they' do evolve further by making lives & committing even 'state'
murder? Thus our martyrs, heroes, habits, rituals, rites, sports, sciences, works & arts: 'g d' is the 'experimentor'
that forms lives, shapes, minds, contents, tools, houses, travels, discoveries & 'unknown territories' as our own?!
So also myDi is like such a vessel made of trees, towers, roots, fruits, leaves, foods & 'cars', submarines & flying
tools: spaceships, climate changes, inventions, huts, tents, homes full of Fantasy, Moods & Magic Mysterious 'Soups'....