Was referring to this really:
Do the rats have free will in this situation? If you trap a rat and supply it with cocaine, is that the same thing as elephants eating fermented apples, and is that the same as humans administering drugs they know to be harmful?
I wasn't saying I agree with the popular view of the experiments, I actually learned a lot from that link, a lot of that info would not have been present in psych/drug research books I have read and studied over the years.
We are into dodgy ground with free will though are we not? Can we say animals like rats have free will or the intelligence or self-consciousness to use it? I don't know I would certainly have to think on that.
The reactions of the rats in the park certainly give us food for thought according to that link, and it is a pity that research isn't used more, thinking back to my time in college, I remember there just been a picture of a dead rat with the basic info about it oding, none of the critical thought that has been raised here.
Actually the more I think on the few different examples mentioned in this thread, the rats, the elephants etc, I don't think I remember coming across a detailed study dealing with all the various examples studies, rather I have just found small reference here and there along the way. [ It would make an interesting paper] That's if I remember correctly, but I could be wrong.
I don't know, I do think that human drug use is certainly different to animal drug, if drug use [and addiction] is subjective amongst humans [which I think it is]
then it is in such way different for us all, so it is certainly different to animals.
What do you think on those questions?
