#accidentally created a theory about reinforcers and how organisms get conditioned. that it causes stimulation to the pleasure centers

[shoezuki]

I love when scientists do experiments and accidentally discover somethin completely different from what they intended. Like pavlov is a classic mfer wasnt even a psychologist when he conditioned those dogs.

But theres another one where these two fuckers Olds and Milner thought they could erase memories by zappin the hippocampus w electricity. So they did it on some rats but mfers had such shit aim and didnt know the fuck they were doin that they ended up hitting the lateral hypothalamus instead which activated a core pleasure center in the brain. And they basically made it so these rats could hit a lever to zap emselves to feel good and they created a bunch of crackhead rats that did nothing but zap themselves.