Gravity, the luminiferous ether, psychic, even RF? Who knows. Maybe all rats are multi-furcations of the same rat, and there's squeaky action at distance.
Regardless I don't know how you'd prove this to everyone's satisfaction, it seems real easy to game/cheat.
That sounds interesting. Like an accidental combination of movie + song + recent news that gives useful insights in some area.
With today's digital tracking, I wonder if we can quantify it: "X% of programming language creators read both Asimov and Terry Pratchett in non-English speaking countries".
> For example rats who master a maze in one part of the world make it easier for unrelated rats anywhere in the world to master the same maze pattern — it’s as if the learned skill/idea is “broadcast” to all rat brains.
Oh, you were being literal. That's deep into pseudoscience territory. What's the proposed mechanism for this "broadcast"?