I found empathy from madness
deliverance from malaise
my heart is is filled with gladness
at the only spirit that I crave
Timber Timbre - Black Water
La Flama Blanca
Catuey: Hey Kenny, you look different.
Kenny: Yeah obviously, I’ve been reborn.
Catuey: You’re kinda bright, its kinda hard to look at you.
Kenny: Yeah well, people say Jesus Christ had the same effect on fools.
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Santa Claws, 3D animation I made with particle effects and full character rigging.
Yes, of course rats are intelligent!
(But then you already knew that, didn’t you?)
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In a simple experiment, researchers at the University of Chicago sought to find out whether a rat would release a fellow rat from an unpleasantly restrictive cage if it could. The answer was yes.
The free rat, occasionally hearing distress calls from its compatriot, learned to open the cage and did so with greater efficiency over time. It would release the other animal even if there wasn’t the payoff of a reunion with it. Astonishingly, if given access to a small hoard of chocolate chips, the free rat would usually save at least one treat for the captive — which is a lot to expect of a rat.
The researchers came to the unavoidable conclusion that what they were seeing was empathy — and apparently selfless behavior driven by that mental state.
“A New Model of Empathy: The Rat” by David Brown, Washington Post
