definitely! if it's possible to train an amoeba or a planarium to solve a maze with a food-reward
[and it has been done many times], humans are trainable - despite evidence to the contrary,
in this very thread. amoebae and planaria have no brains nor even a spinal-cord, yet they learn -
even more, if we dice-up the educated planaria and feed them to uneducated planaria, they become educated!
ethics gets in the way of a similar experiment on humans, as we would have to wait for the educated-humans to die
a natural death, plus the educated-humans would have to avoid potentially-dangerous meds to prevent illness or an
early-demise for their eventual consumers...
but i strongly-suspect that merely eating an educated-human does not confer immediate education on the
uneducated-eater --- after all, think of all the cannibals who ate various explorers, sailors, missionaries, and so on:
why didn't the cannibals immediately learn the alien language, the operation of their ships, and how to read?

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tmp, sept-2007

NewfsMum thinks that i am kidding about cannibalistic learning. actually, i'm not.
this is a cached-copy of the 1965 manual by the researcher: http://tinyurl.com/5wkcv5v

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So......Does that mean there are some good places in Leicester to get dog training or not......?

Haven't you found anyone yet? I am sure you have managed on your own by now

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I have yes....I have just found it very amusing to see how the thread developed when it really wasn't supposed to be a contentious subject.

I'm afraid that's what happens when a certain person is mentioned - brings everyone's blood pressure up

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Will always miss you, my little Joshie Woshie xx

If you want real love, buy a dog

If you wouldn't use it on a child, don't use it on a dog

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