Okay. People are lazy.

For many of us out there, this is probably not a huge surprise, for others they are probably taking offense. I don't know why. In truth, not only are people lazy, but so are animals and most any other organism. It's survival. Just about all organisms need oxygen to metabolize energy in order to function. When an animal does any type of action, energy (mostly in the forms of carbohydrates) are metabolized faster, and energy is lost at a higher rate. Thus, to conserve energy, laziness is instilled in most organisms. (I would say all, but i honestly don't know if this is true or not.)

Anyway, why i'm i writing about laziness? Well, the reason comes in a bit.

Some of you are fully aware of who B.F. Skinner is, and other behaviorists, and of there observations. At least i know James Miller and Collins are. Anyway, i am going to try and figure out something now.

One of the classic observations made by behaviorists is that of group consciousness and group action/behaviour. For example, you have a set of double doors and a crowd of people coming out of those doors. Out of these double doors, only one door is opened allowing the flow of people out through this one door. Now we introduce a second group of people already outside trying to get in. While it might seem obvious to some to open the second double door and walk through that, often times that second group will instead try to weave there way through the first open door with the flow of traffic against them. Why?

Here is where my laziness discussion comes into play. Keep in mind this is only my observation and my hypothesis. Basically, to explain the behavior of those who walk against the flow of traffic instead of opening the second door, many will hypothesis that it is group behavior. By that i mean that if one goes against the traffic, then the others in that group will too. I believe that group behavior does play a role in this. But to explain why the first person even attempted to go through the traffic blocked door, i think laziness plays a part in his/her/its decision. Here's how.

By going through the already open door, the person is, at least in his or her mind, expending less energy then by opening the door. While it doesn't seem likely, you have to actually think about it. By attempting to weave through the traffic, the only expended energy is that which is used to get through that one door. However, to go through the other door, there is more steps, and more energy used. For one, the person has to actually think about opening the door, and mentally go through the process of doing it. Believe it or not, this does use energy. Secondly, actually opening the door, and third, walking through it.

Now the interesting thing that happens afterward is that once the group trying to get in sees the open door, they too will go through it. Why? Because the door is already open, it takes out to steps required to go through that door. Now that door is open and requires less energy to go through it.

Of course there is also the part where because one person did it, the group trying to get in is now reinforced that such behavior is not only acceptable but beneficial.

Okay. Don't ask me why i decided to write about laziness and behaviorisms and stuff like that. Collins has been bugging me to post, so...
If its boring, just go bitch to him. Then maybe he'll stop whining about me not posting. :)