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warning the related ass credit threat has been removed by the moderators of s credit maybe it was for a reason the outcome would be much longer limbed larger headed lankier humans what psychological studies would change everything we know about humans if it were not immortal to actually run them I've always been interested in a kind of reset of civilization putting everyone involved on an isolated landmass where they must start everything from scratch with no prior knowledge of anything from our current technology I wonder what kind of laws we would come up with or what kind of political systems we would create I have a serious doubt as to whether we could ever reach the same state we're in now regardless of where we start because the Industrial Revolution would be way harder the second time around the reason is that a lot of the coal that powered that period of development was easy to access you could pretty much pick coal up off the ground in some parts of the world but over the course of the past 200 years or so we've dug up most of the easily accessible fossil fuels and that stuff isn't being replaced anytime soon if we find ourselves regressing to the iron age for whatever reason we may end up staying there forever having a baby fly up to the ISS and living until adulthood up there to see what effect body growth would have in space reminds me of the belters from the expanse people who grew up in low no and artificial gravity and colonies beyond Mars the prediction there is much longer limbed larger headed lankier humans and it's legally considered a form of torture to force them to exist under full earth gravity unassisted identical twins separated at Birth are the Platinum standard for nature versus nurture studies but they suffer from this being a rare occurrence if we intentionally created and separated identical twins we'd surely learn a lot as a result a researcher in New York secretly did it and continued observing the children for years the files are sealed until everyone involved is dead if I recall correctly although they've been given access to the files themselves the documentary three identical strangers covers it the Jewish board controls the records and they can't be released without their approval until 2065 to protect the privacy of those studied to this date all study subjects who have requested their personal records have received them but the records have been heavily redacted raising children in complete isolation with no human contact in order to figure out nature versus nurture debates for all sorts of things for example Jeannie her father well both parents but it was forced by her father locked her in a dark room strapped to a child's potty chair it's extremely depressing to watch I remember seeing a PBS special on her and another feral child but it's also very interesting she was rescued as a teenager and as far as I recall never fully recovered and was never expected to function as a normal human it's called the critical period hypothesis Erik Lana Berg if anyone wanted to know basically it's the age in which a child loses the ability to learn fluent language in some cases any language in feral children it seems to be around the age of 13 Jeanne is one example the wild boy of Aveyron is another as far as I remember he never integrated or learned any decent amount of language he was 12 when they finally captured him after he lived in the woods there is one named oksana who was rescued from a neglectful home where she basically lived with the dogs she was 7 when they found her walking on all limbs and barking last I heard she was working on a farm and can speak fluently more Studies on how long our brains function after decapitation supposedly there was a man who attended a beheading I think he was a doctor and quickly after the man was killed the doctor yelled the man's name the head size opened and seemed to focus on the doctor then closed again the doctor did this a couple more times each time the eyes getting more sluggish until no reaction occurred someone replied there was a scientist during the overthrow of Nobles possibly in Ireland but unsure it's been a while he was going to get decapitated and wanted to do an experiment where he starts blinking constantly to see how long he blinks after death he had someone in the crowd gathering data and after his head got cut off he blinked for something like 8 seconds freerunning circadian clocks having people live in isolation from external time stimuli and see how their wake or sleep cycles go we have a general idea about the human clock but much more to learn someone replied this was done if I remember correctly to sleep researchers in the early 1900's went to live in caves for a while to test this hypothesis and found that they fell asleep roughly 15 hours after waking up later in history researchers discovered that a chemical called adenosine acts independently of your circadian rhythm and builds up as you are awake putting hundreds of children on an island and watching them grow up without speech or any education or socialization and seeing what sort of society they form or whether they basically just become animals intercourse would happen definitely but not forceful probably not forceful intercourse and crime in general is virtually non-existent in isolated native populations when your social group is so small everybody knows everybody and there's little to no opportunity for privacy crime as a whole doesn't really make sense because everyone is working together by the time the experimental child population would have reached sexual age they will have grown up with each other as a communal tribe the boys wouldn't need to force themselves on the girls because the girls would be interested in intercourse just as much as the boys running a society with no justice system a place where one is able to commit even the most heinous of crimes and face no punishment formal or informal is respect for human life built into our DNA do we naturally lean towards peace or is that something we've been conditioned to believe because we're scared of the repercussions my bet is that people would anyway form groups and violence wouldn't be so common among members of those groups aren't humans herd animals we need to work with each other for survival maybe some kind of justice system would form naturally within those groups to penalize those who threaten survival of a group I've always wondered if it's possible to turn someone into a psychopath an experiment that takes a non psychopath and exposes them to various stimulants and experiences in an attempt to change the way their brain works someone replied people can be turned into a psychopath when they're young but once your personality and sense of empathy is fully it is very unlikely to change most people with antisocial personality disorder who displayed the more dangerous symptoms of the condition tend to have a very bad childhood that's not to say everyone who had a very bad childhood as a psychopath in the making but that having certain genetic triggers in that environment can make it more likely to develop the condition versus having a healthy childhood environment studies about dehumanization how easily can you convince a person with no existing bias that someone else is less than based on something completely arbitrary like take a bunch of teenagers with the same ethnicity nationality and socio-economic background and have them form their own micro society then add propaganda that dehumanizes some of them based on a completely arbitrary characteristic like hair color nose shape freckles etc and see what happens raising the kid without talking to them at all but playing movies in English or any language constantly I want to see if they'd be able to learn the language just by observing I already know they can i myself am proof I learned my mother tongue just by listening to my parents without any direct teaching but I want to see tangible proof happen in front of our eyes that humans can learn language out of absolutely nothing sensory deprivation making humans or children live in pitch blackness to see if the eyes wither away and ears take over and what happens someone replied eyes can stop sending signals to the brain oh I had to wear an eye patch over my right eye for a couple hours every day as a child because my left eye was weak my right eye was perfect so if I never forced my brain to use my left eye by putting a patch on the right my brain would have eventually disconnected the signal from my left eye because it wasn't useful once the brain completely removed those connections it would have been unfixable selective breeding of humans for intelligence and physical abilities to find out what humans could be capable of also I guess we'd also have to figure out a way to test if someone's intelligence is due to nature or nurture ethics aside for a moment this actually happened during the slave trade only the strongest slaves who could survive the long journey on a ship made it the weaker ones who died or were dying were let dropped off at a different country on route because of this there is still some jealousy today between these two locations one thinking they are superior to the other based on the knowledge that their ancestors didn't make it to the final destination there's also physical genetic difference like muscularity and height build etc generally more athletic slaves were more desirable and had stronger genes basically you're choosing a slave labor workforce and have to choose between a load of six feet plus 200 pounds plus men or a few scrawny 120 pounds five feet five men you're going to desire the stronger slaves when it comes to manual tasks I'm curious to us how humans would behave in a total utopia how would we react if we no longer had to suffer from disease or famine or anything when anything we could ever want from entertainment to medicine is at our fingertips how would a human raised in this world act and view things what would a society of this be like someone replied this happened with rats the experiments started with the rats living well but then there was nothing for them to do so they stopped doing everything and they all eventually died because they didn't reproduce what happens if we inspire chimps to develop complex tools they'll sharpen sticks but that's about it as far as I know when I say complex tools I'm referring to stone based tools arrowheads axe heads early mallets and hammers just to see what they do with them this might be more sociology but it's pretty much considered a big no-no on messing with the other primates development someone replied they haven't done this specific thing but they've definitely taught a chimp or two to cook food and start a fire with matches they apparently much prefer cooked food over raw and we'll have that if they can the issue is they won't teach other chimps to start a fire and cook food apparently teaching just isn't a thing they do real closest thing to it as monkey-see monkey-do learning through observation nazi cold experiments actively shaped the way we handle people that have had long exposure floating in the ocean sea rescues etc also the effects of gangrene and some other arbitrary degenerative infections unit 731 was mostly concerned with the effects of biochemical warfare from what I understand but the reason it was much much more important to protect that information is because it was valuable research that you can't otherwise get your hands on Nazi scientists delved into all their research on the bias that important factors didn't matter in the broad scheme of things twin research is a good example of this not only identical twins were used but fraternal twins and even siblings born a part that look alike it made everything they researched unusable also the Japanese didn't stop at laboratory testing they engulfed local villages in testing as well by poisoning their food and soil supply water unleashing bugs infected within the villages and all that other horrible stuff scientifically 731 was doing incalculably more valuable research that was much more stable than the Nazis a study where a large group of boys is divided in two they are watched for years as they grow up going to two controlled schools and in two controlled family environments one group is told be masculine they can only like boy things are shamed for liking girly things are showing any emotion other than anger they are not hugged told to be a man or man up when hurt or upset even in school it would be like this and they have to play a manly sport the other group is allowed to cry they're allowed to like things like flowers and hugs without being shamed for it in school they can choose any sport they want to play or to not play one at all or they can play in bands or take art classes they're allowed to feel and do things that make them happy the study ends after they all graduate high school and the final tally is taken which group of boys is overall kinder happier and able to more easily receive and give back love which ones get in less fights and less trouble which ones respect others more thanks for listening to radio TTS hit the subscribe button activate the notification bell for more videos click the right box for the most controversial reddit topics playlist for more videos that were censored by the reddit mods let us know in the comments what you think about these experiments [Music]

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Published: Mon Jun 22 2020