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View of West of Delhi (and air pollution). I think Delhi is one of the few big capitals with so few towers. Taken from Jama Masjit: photo by Jean-Etienne Minh-Duy Poirrier, 12 January 20116 October 2005
Hazy hazy but it already looks like this
All the time now, on
The tippy single platform
All the towers of the unreal
City have fallen or soon will be
Falling and there are to be no more dreams
Tired tired and would wish to sleep
The failing animal machine said
Falling into the water
Again
All the time now, on
The tippy single platform
All the towers of the unreal
City have fallen or soon will be
Falling and there are to be no more dreams
Tired tired and would wish to sleep
The failing animal machine said
Falling into the water
Again
Rat on the "single platform" aka "inverted flower pot", used for rodent REM sleep deprivation. The Flowerpot technique is used in sleep deprivation studies. It is designed to allow NREM sleepbut prevent REM sleep. A laboratory rat is placed on top of an upside down flower pot which is placed in a bucket of water. While in NREM sleep the rat retains muscle tone so it can sleep on top of the flowerpot. When the rat enters REM sleep it will lose muscle tone and fall off the flowerpot into the water, then climb back up and re-enter NREM sleep. This rat is being deprived of restful REM sleep by a researcher using the single platform ("flower pot") technique. The water is within 1 cm of the small flower pot bottom platform where the rat sits. At the onset of REM sleep, either the rat will fall into the water only to clamber back to its pot to avoid drowning, or its nose will become submerged into the water, shockingit back to an awakened state: photo by Jean-Etienne Minh-Duy Poirrier, 6 October 2005
From inside the cage... OK, I'm observing rats with my IR-enabled camera. But how does it feel to be observed like that? I put my camera in the cage and waited for the rat to stop sniffing at it: photo by Jean-Etienne Minh-Duy Poirrier, 19 June 2006
Rat sleeping in its cage: photo by Jean-Etienne Minh-Duy Poirrier, 13 April 2006
Lion (Panthera leo), Olomouc Zoo: photo by SonNy cZ,4 June 2007
If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.
Ludwig Wittgenstein: Philosophical Investigations, c. 1945-1949
I personally can see no reason for conceding mind to my fellow men and denying it to animals. […] I at least cannot doubt that the interests and activities of animals are correlated with awareness and feeling in the same way as my own, and which may be, for aught I know, just as vivid.
I personally can see no reason for conceding mind to my fellow men and denying it to animals. […] I at least cannot doubt that the interests and activities of animals are correlated with awareness and feeling in the same way as my own, and which may be, for aught I know, just as vivid.
Lord Russell Brain, 1st Baron Brain, author of the standard work of neurology Brain's Diseases of the Nervous System (1933), longtime editor of the homonymous neurological medical journal titled Brain, and President of the Royal College of Physicians, 1950-56: from "Presidential Address," in C.A. Keele and R. Smith, eds., The Assessment of Pain in Men and Animals, 1962