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Do you know what is the Hundredth Monkey effect?
Of course it is a controversial theory but it is really interesting!
Also No, I am not monkeying around!
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So the background was that this theory was proposed way back in the year 1980 by Lyall Watson who was a biologist.
He mentioned a phenomenon that the Japanese primatologist discovered while studying the Macaque monkey in the wild.
So a group of scientists provided a group of monkeys with sweet potatoes covered in sand. The monkeys liked the taste of the sweet potatoes but found the dirt unpleasant. It is understood that they had no pica or a taste for dirt!
Over a period of time, a young female monkey found out by accident which in all probability would be the sweet potato falling in the nearby stream and getting cleaned! Now that is not important, but what is important is that she started washing the potatoes in the stream by herself!
Even that is not amazing! She showed this to her mother and friends who showed it to others and very soon, every monkey in and around the area would do this! The moment any monkey from the group get a sweet potato, they would first wash it and then eat it!
Remember that later on, the young kids all washed their potatoes while only the adults who ‘imitated’ their young ones washed the potatoes but those who did not follow their young ones continued eat the dirty potatoes! Again this is not that amazing!
Now comes the real amazing deal and the 100th monkey effect!
Now we know many monkeys do copy but this was surreal!
The scientists later observed another group of monkeys, the Koshima monkeys were also washing sweet potatoes!
The assumption was that if at the dawn of a particular day, 99 monkeys knew about washing the potatoes, then by the dusk of the same day 100 monkeys knew.
By that evening almost everyone in the tribe was washing sweet potatoes before eating them. The added energy of this hundredth monkey somehow created an ideological breakthrough!
Even more amazing this which was observed was that the journey of this knowledge across the oceans!
Colonies of monkeys on other islands and the mainland troop of monkeys at Takasakiyama began washing their sweet potatoes too!
A hypothesis was then drawn- when a certain critical number achieves an awareness, this new awareness can be communicated through mental energy!
The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon implies that when only a limited number of people know of a new way, it may remain the conscious property of these people. But when it crosses the Hundreth member (the number 100 here is just a number! It can be more or less!); then it becomes a collective conscious of the whole community!
The number here is the critical mass which is the minimum number of people who have to get the habit for the whole community to follow! This is actually accepted and followed even in business models and training program!
Even then there have been some who have tried to debunk the phenomenon and instead use example to actually explain old vs new behaviour.
It has been suggested then that the story of the Japanese monkeys is a good example of the propagation of a paradigm shift!
The truly innovative points of view tend to come from those on the edge between youth and adulthood!
The older generation continues to cling to the world view they grew up with. The new idea does not become universal until the older generation withdraws from power, and a younger generation matures within the new point of view! Which means that the best inventors or innovators are the young ones who have not yet become adults!
Now now, do not feel bad! Maybe this is limited only to the monkeys! Then again, human beings have constantly redefined what number is old or old age! So washing the potatoes before eating is a talent which can be acquired while some talents like singing like the birthday celebrity Prathivadhi Bhayankara Sreenivas cannot be acquired! You have to have the inborn talent!
Now look for the monkey experiment in Google! We will read about it later!
Shubh ratri!
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