Re: So how much do you really know?

"Jason" <[email protected]> Fri, 16 Dec 2005 15:24:35 -0000
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"David Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
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> Carl P. Corliss wrote:
>
>>
>> A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
>>
> Interesting.  I once trained a goldfish to rise to the top of a fishbowl 
> when a light was turned on, using operant conditioning (just like Pavlov 
> and his famous drooling dog) in the span of a month.

There you go then - he rose to the top, but could not for the life of him 
remember why. I'm a bit like that when I go all the way upstairs to fetch 
the, err, thingy...