Did You Ever Hear That Thing About Rats?

[bettertolive]

Some people have been sharing my apartment these past few days, kindness, the awkward shifting time between end of school moving out and end of school moving in, and money have brought this about.  But with this influx of human... (ity?) activity, contact, presence, etc. I've found that my apartment is much more organized and more like a place

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[bettertolive]

Rats will change their behavior, specifically their hygienic behavior, in response to their circumstances. If a rat lives in a "clean" environment, it will groom itself and generally be healthy. If it lives in a "dirty" environment, like a sewer, then it will carry diseases and not exhibit grooming behavior.

[ext_94150]

If Aristotle is right, then what's human is not these bodies but the observed behaviors that they get up to.

Which might be so. But in that case, none of us "are" human or humans, we're just more or less occasional participants in humanity the activity. I mean, we're still us, we're just not guaranteed to be similar to one another. Something which we thought was a part of us flakes away to dance gauzily in the wind of chance and circumstance. Zen speaks: What was your face a year before you were born? Despite all our efforts to define ourselves and live according to that definition, we're all equally determined by aggregate action of clearly "external" factors.

But you know. Whatever.