
Rupert Sheldrake reports on an amazing experiment done by Rene Peoc'h.
Peoc'h built a small robot that moved a small distance, turned in a random direction, then moved another small distance, etc etc.. The operative word here bing RANDOM
He put the robot in a room and let it go. As you might expect, the path the robot took was as random as Peoc'h's robot's random number generator, which was pretty random. The trace is a rat's nest effectively covering the surface of the floor of the room.
The next thing Peoc'h did was to put the robot in the room with some hatching chick eggs. Chicks imprint the first moving thing they see, and treat it as their mother.
Then Peoc'h put the chicks in a cage and left the robot out of the cage.
He did this a whole bunch of times, with a whole bunch of robots and a whole bunch of chicks.
In all cases, when the chicks are in the cage, theoretically yearning for their robot "mother", the RANDOM path the ROBOT takes is no longer random, but rather, heavily biased toward hovering around the cage with the chicks.
What does this mean?
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