RE: animal learning? motivation? automaticity?

[Paul C. Smith]

Brenda Smith
> Yes--well, actually, it was a rooster.  As a child in
> Nigeria, I watched one of the houseboys cut off the head of a rooster.
The
> rooster got away from him and ran around the yard about 5 times before the
> houseboy was able to catch it again.  What was spooky was the seeming
> purposiveness of the rooster's running.

        I have long suspected from observing fanatic runners in action that the
brain is not involved in that particular behavior.

Paul Smith
Alverno College
Milwaukee