Some interesting research I noticed, I've highlighted the important parts.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)30991-6
https://www.theatlantic.com/science...cstasy-prefer-each-other-to-chewbacca/570763/
This is exactly the kind of setup that neuroscientists use to test social behavior in mice, but Dölen had no idea whether it would work with octopuses. “It might be that they are so smart that the kind of task we’d use for a mouse would be boring to them,” she says. “Maybe they’d take one lap around the chambers and stop.” Fortunately, that wasn’t the case. The free-moving individuals thoroughly explored the chambers, and from their movements, Dölen realized that individuals of any sex gravitate toward females, but avoid males. Next, she dosed the animals with ecstasy ... submerged their octopuses in an MDMA solution, allowing them to absorb the drug through their gills. At first they used too high a dose, and the animals "freaked out and did all these color changes," Dölen says. But once the team found a more suitable dose, the animals behaved more calmly -- and more sociably.
With ecstasy in their system, the five octopuses spent far more time in the company of the same trapped male they once shunned. Even without a stopwatch, the change was obvious. Before the drug, they explored the chamber with the other octopus very tentatively. “They mashed themselves against one wall, very slowly extended one arm, touched the [other animal], and went back to the other side,” Dölen says. “But when they had MDMA, they had this very relaxed posture. They floated around, they wrapped their arms around the chamber, and they interacted with the other octopus in a much more fluid and generous way. They even exposed their [underside], where their mouth is, which is not something octopuses usually do.”
It's like there's this common theme that applies across vastly different species. When you abstract it and distill it down to its essence, what you get is that Chad's mesmerizing aura has the same effects as MDMA--instant serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine. If you're an incel, you're just an ugly octopus trapped in an underwater chamber drowning in sorrow, hoping for a chance event, maybe even God, to spike a foid's drink with MDMA while in your presence.
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)30991-6
https://www.theatlantic.com/science...cstasy-prefer-each-other-to-chewbacca/570763/
This is exactly the kind of setup that neuroscientists use to test social behavior in mice, but Dölen had no idea whether it would work with octopuses. “It might be that they are so smart that the kind of task we’d use for a mouse would be boring to them,” she says. “Maybe they’d take one lap around the chambers and stop.” Fortunately, that wasn’t the case. The free-moving individuals thoroughly explored the chambers, and from their movements, Dölen realized that individuals of any sex gravitate toward females, but avoid males. Next, she dosed the animals with ecstasy ... submerged their octopuses in an MDMA solution, allowing them to absorb the drug through their gills. At first they used too high a dose, and the animals "freaked out and did all these color changes," Dölen says. But once the team found a more suitable dose, the animals behaved more calmly -- and more sociably.
With ecstasy in their system, the five octopuses spent far more time in the company of the same trapped male they once shunned. Even without a stopwatch, the change was obvious. Before the drug, they explored the chamber with the other octopus very tentatively. “They mashed themselves against one wall, very slowly extended one arm, touched the [other animal], and went back to the other side,” Dölen says. “But when they had MDMA, they had this very relaxed posture. They floated around, they wrapped their arms around the chamber, and they interacted with the other octopus in a much more fluid and generous way. They even exposed their [underside], where their mouth is, which is not something octopuses usually do.”
It's like there's this common theme that applies across vastly different species. When you abstract it and distill it down to its essence, what you get is that Chad's mesmerizing aura has the same effects as MDMA--instant serotonin, dopamine and norepinephrine. If you're an incel, you're just an ugly octopus trapped in an underwater chamber drowning in sorrow, hoping for a chance event, maybe even God, to spike a foid's drink with MDMA while in your presence.
