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Human Tolerance Limits:
"of atmosphere. What we use the most of, we go the shortest time without. What we use the least of, we can go the longest time without. And I think nature very deliberately gave us this long tolerance with food and water so that we would have a way to learn something.
"In behavioral science with animals we have what is called punishment and reward–and they are the thrashings and gold cups. Punishment is not getting what we need within nature’s allowed tolerance of time–where you don’t go panicky. And reward is getting what you need within the period. Everything sublimely moves along and everything is O.K. and I would say human being have learned, in the behavior games of animals, to find out what the animals recognizes in the way of colors and shapes and what fish do and frogs do and so forth–all by doing these experiments within the tolerable limits of which this vital supply can be had by the creature.
“I would think nature–having us all born naked, helpless, and ignorant, and having to find our way–gave us a long tolerance on food so we would get to know our geography before we starved to death. And the ones we need the most of–the”
