If human society develops for hundreds of years and thousands of years, what will eventually become? We have always envisioned a heavenly life without war, disease, and stress in the future?
In order to verify the future of mankind, in 1968, an American animal behaviorist named John B. Calhoun ( John B. Calhoun) performed an experiment with mice to simulate the future of human society. The results of the experiment completely exceeded people's expectations and gave us great enlightenment.
This experiment is like this, Professor Karl Hong rented a huge warehouse, then built a 2.5m X 1.5m giant box in the warehouse, and then divided the box into 16 fan-shaped areas. Each area is equipped with automatic drinking fountains, automatic feeding machines and mouse nests, creating an extremely comfortable environment for mice.
In these 16 fan-shaped areas, 256 mouse nests are placed. Each mouse nest can accommodate 15 mice, so theoretically this box can allow 4000 mice to live in it at the same time, and It is also very comfortable, because the water dispenser can supply 6000 mice at the same time, and the feeder can supply 9000 mice at the same time. They have already calculated the supply in advance. They believe that according to the super fecundity of mice, this box will soon be unable to To accommodate more mice.
They also installed air-conditioning equipment for the warehouse, adjusted the temperature to the most suitable temperature for the rats, and strictly guarded them to prevent the natural enemies of the rats from entering the warehouse and threatening the survival of the rats. In short, they provided it to The best environment the mice can think of. After
, they selected 4 healthy male mice and 4 female mice, as the mice "Adam and Eve", and put them in this box, and this box is a heavenly existence for the mice. They named this heaven " Universe 25".
Professor Karl Hong just wanted to see what the rats can develop in this environment without any external disadvantages.
After 8 mice lived in Universe 25, they lived a heavenly life. There is endless food and water, beautiful environment and huge living space. Not long after the experiment started, the first litter of mice Just after birth, little mice have endless food and water after they are born, and they grow up healthy and happily. The number of mice increases exponentially every month.
As the number of rats increased, they discovered an interesting phenomenon, that is, 16 regions separated in Universe 25. The rats will preempt these regions and live in fixed areas according to different habits. In a region, the number of rats in each region will be different as time goes on. This is exactly what Professor Karl Hong thinks. Rats have territorial awareness .
But what they did not expect is that in the area with a large number of rats, there are more than 100 rats living, and there are only a few dozen rats in the area with a small number. This means that large families and small families have appeared in the mouse world. Although everyone is not worried about eating and drinking, rats still form a social hierarchy. Large families will continue to expand their territory and the number of rats to snatch female rats from small families, and female rats are also willing to combine with male rats from large families After that, they will become more and more powerful, and the small families will decline more and more until they disappear completely. At this time, it is the emergence of a class.
Different numbers of rats in 16 sectors
The experiment continues.The number of mice has been increasing. After 10 months of the experiment, the number of mice has reached 620, which is twice the number of mice with 4 males and 4 females. The changes between the large and small families of mice continue.
But they found that the reproduction speed of mice started to slow down after 10 months, and the mice began to exhibit some abnormal behaviors at this time. For example, female mice abandon the mice before weaning, adult male mice Injury young rats, and there is a more exaggerated phenomenon, indescribable behaviors occur between same-sex rats, and these behaviors would not happen in the normal mouse world.
On the 600th day of the experiment, the number of mice in Universe 25 reached its peak at this time, reaching 2,200, but there is still a lot of room for development in the space that can eventually accommodate 4000 mice.
The number of rats began to decline on the 600th day
They found some extremely abnormal behaviors. At this time, the rats began to collectively show some abnormal phenomena, such as a male mouse with a leading position in a family The female rats and young rats in the territory are no longer protected, and the aggressive behavior of the female rats increases, and the small family male rats with non-leading positions begin to avoid the world passively and hide themselves in the corner.
At this time, there was a serious problem of . The rats no longer gave birth. The number of rats did not increase after the 600th day. The behavior of the rats became more and more incomprehensible. Acting alone, at this time the rats no longer go alone to find food, but a large group to eat and drink together. They are very afraid to act alone, that is, these rats are very " eager to socialize" at this time.
This is also very similar to human society. If a person has no worries about food, clothing, and pressure to make money, then he will be very lonely and will have an extreme desire to socialize.
At this time, mice are also divided into four categories.
[The first category] Male rats in a non-leadership position are also the most numerous type of mice. They are the common people in human society. They will gather in the center of the fan-shaped area, which is the center of the experimental field. Here are the various The borders of the territories are especially prone to disputes. Usually the rats are not in this area, but these male rats now run to this place and do nothing, just sleep there, lick their fur, and make themselves very clean. . Professor Carl Hong called these mice " beautiful people ", but these beautiful mice, once a mouse disturbs them, will attack the mouse frantically and even kill each other. Full of invisible violence.
[Second category] Female rats that are no longer nurturing. They are very similar to the first category of mice. They have no passion for life. They lick their fur and sleep all day, but they will not be in the center like those male rats. Area, but hiding in the nest, but once a male rat approaches them, they will attack each other and do not want to breed at all.
[The third category] Male rats in the ruling class have also begun to lose interest in life and gradually lose their territorial consciousness. They no longer protect the family's territory. Instead, they sleep all day and lick their fur like ordinary mice. , The difference is that they will sleep in the nest.
[Category 4] Female rats in the nurturing stage. They were originally a group of very fertile rats and were protected by the leading male rats. However, due to the inaction of the male rats at this time, they shouldered the burden Because of their responsibility to protect their territories, their aggressiveness has become stronger and stronger. Even their naives will be killed or abandon their pups. Some male rats do not eat the food from the feeder, but start to eat these pups. Rats, in the end, there are fewer and fewer rats, because they have all been eaten by each other.
When the test is approaching 1500 days,Most of the mice have become genderless mice. They will court mice of any age and any sex during the estrus period. Once the courtship is unsuccessful, they will bite each other frantically and become extremely violent.
When the experiment lasted for 1500 days, with the death of the last male rat, the entire Universe 25 experiment was completely over, and this mouse paradise was completely destroyed.
So, why did this experiment have such a result?
Professor Karl Hong believes that this is a kind of " behavior sinking " in rats, which means that if a species is within a limited range, if it develops to a certain extent They discovered the irreversible sinking phenomenon within this range, that is, everyone collectively will become negative and world-weary, and once this phenomenon begins, it cannot be changed until it is destroyed.
There are two reasons for this sinking behavior.
One is " social density " and the other is " heavenly environment ".
First is the social density. When the social density in an environment is too high, the rats cannot control their social time and social space, which leads to sinking. In other words, over-confidential socialization will make mice become non-social.
The second is a heavenly environment, that is, this well-fed universe No. 25. Here, mice do not have any pressure to survive, which leads to them no longer need family affection, friendship, no need to protect offspring, and no need to worry about the future. For a long time, it will become dull and dull, but at the same time extremely violent.
and these mice have become very " narcissistic ",It means that everyone no longer cares about other things, only cares about themselves, just for their beauty, and at the same time no longer respects life, this time is the time when the entire group perishes.
Professor Karl Hong’s five-year experiment has given mankind a lot of enlightenment. The paradise that we humans have been yearning for may not really exist, or if the future world is a paradise , Then it is not far from the demise of mankind. Mankind can only develop in a healthy and long-term development in a stressful society.
For a species, there is pressure and pursuit is a must. Once there is no pressure to eat, wear, shelter, and transport, humans will feel the boring life of life, and if they are confused about the future, the 25th experiment will occur. "Behaviour sinking."
So this little Universe 25 is a real rehearsal of a certain future of mankind. If we recognize this, we can understand many things. So, can this article give you some inspiration for being anxious?
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