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What is Intelligence? 88<br />
Food issues however tend to affect us more physically than emotionally,<br />
but at times this general media and interpersonal hypnosis and bullying<br />
becomes so powerful and against our natural instincts that it creates a<br />
serious problem in our lives, both individually and as a society.<br />
For example, we are constantly fed the idea from the media that sex is<br />
good for us, a major goal in life, if not the major goal, whether or not our<br />
subsequent life experience teaches this to be true.<br />
But this perspective would we suggest seem to be very far indeed from<br />
natural sex activity, as we perceive it even in other members of the<br />
animal kingdom.<br />
For to continually stimulate us with ideas of sex is we would suggest like<br />
the experiment that has been done by stimulating the “pleasure centre” in<br />
the brain of rats.<br />
Electrodes were attached to a rat’s brain, and a handle was placed in its<br />
cage, and each time the rat depressed the handle this would electrically<br />
stimulate its brain and give it “pleasure.”<br />
So what do we think the outcome was?<br />
The outcome was that the rat (any one of many) made this connection<br />
between the pressing of the handle and the pleasure it received by the<br />
scientist’s electrical stimulation of its brain, and continued to press this<br />
handle repeatedly until it fell down in exhaustion and was unable to<br />
depress the handle any more.<br />
And almost unbelievably, when the rat was revived, it returned to the<br />
handle again, and repeated its behaviour pattern of compulsively<br />
depressing the handle until it again fell down in exhaustion.<br />
So how can we save the poor little rat from such a dubious “death by<br />
pleasure”?<br />
Of course we simply take those electrodes out of its “pleasure centre”,<br />
take it out of the cage and let it scurry away into its natural environment,<br />
in which it will have to wait for an opportunity to mate when the season<br />
comes, just like any other rat in Nature.<br />
So likewise, it seems only sensible that we should disengage ourselves<br />
from this particular aspect of public hypnosis in so much as we
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