Joe Rogan Experience #2546 - Michael Button · Aired Aug 26, 2026
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Rats on the west coast learn to navigate a maze faster after rats on the east coast are trained on the same maze.
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This is Rupert Sheldrake's morphic resonance theory, and mainstream science treats it as pseudoscience. The claim that rats in one place learn a maze faster because unrelated rats elsewhere already learned it has never been credibly replicated, and the experiments behind it are widely criticized as poorly designed and unfalsifiable.
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Is it true that Rats on the west coast learn to navigate a maze faster after rats on the east coast are trained on the same maze?
No, not as stated. This is Rupert Sheldrake's morphic resonance theory, and mainstream science treats it as pseudoscience. Joe Rogan said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2546 - Michael Button, aired Aug 26, 2026, at 2:15:36. The supporting source is en.wikipedia.org, linked below.
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