Physiological events associated with pregnancy (mostly hormones) rewires the mother’s brain such that when she gives birth, she immediately takes care of the young, grooms them etc., something she has never done before.
Salt-starved rats develop an appetite for salt and are drawn to stimuli predictive of extremely salty water
I’ve been wondering about the latter for a while. These two results are less strongly predicted by shard theoretic reasoning than by “hardcoded” hypotheses. Pure-RL+SL shard theory loses points on these two observations, and points to other mechanisms IMO (or I’m missing some implications of pure-RL+SL shard theory).
I’ve been wondering about the latter for a while. These two results are less strongly predicted by shard theoretic reasoning than by “hardcoded” hypotheses. Pure-RL+SL shard theory loses points on these two observations, and points to other mechanisms IMO (or I’m missing some implications of pure-RL+SL shard theory).