Truman is more like a rat in a cage than a “true man”.

As an obvious main star of the Truman Show, Truman Burbank was confined to a seemingly ordinary, nearly perfect world. He has a beloved wife, a good job, a friendly neighbor, and a person who hinders talking to him on the street of Seahaven. However, Seahaven does not seem to be the ideal place. Truman is like a cage mouse, controlled by his "creator" Christophe. Everything around him and people were fake, Truman finally proved himself a "real man".

Fast forward in 1971, scientists named Jay Weiss further explored this with cage mouse. He placed three mice in three different cages, attached a tail to each wheel and attached an electrode. The mouse is a lucky mouse. No influence Another one can be shaken and stopped by turning the wheel. The third is disappointing. You will be shocked at the same time as the second mouse, but you can not do anything about it. When the second mouse turned the wheel, the third mouse only stopped the shock. What happened?

Place the rod or pedal on the wall and place the mouse on a special cage (called "Skinner Box"). When the mouse accidentally pushes the rod, the mouse moves around the cage and pushes the rod, the food particles fall into the cage. The operator is the action before strengthening agent, it is food pellet. As long as you want food in a relatively short period of time, the mouse "learns" to push the bar. This leads to one of the principles of operational conditioning. The act of strengthening stimuli leads to raising the possibility of such behavior in the future.

The cage has a mouse with two sides. One side is bright and the other side is dark. One of the survival mechanisms of mice is to support dark side in all aspects and to avoid bright side. However, when the mouse enters the dark side of the cage, it gets shocked. Despite his lifelong intuition, it remained bright after several shocks coincided with his favorite habitat. Are you afraid of the dark right now or do you train him to avoid it? If the mouse is human, he may tell us that he is afraid of the influence in the dark, it shows that he has the ability to feel emotion. We think, make decisions, have emotions and self-awareness, so we know that human beings have the ability to be conscious. Each of us believes that others have the same abilities. But we do not have the technology to enter the hearts of people around us to see what they are doing.