TBF if someone tased you every time you set your phone down you'd fucking remember
98I imagine they feel like “man, I really need to turn to goo” in the same way we are like “man, I really gotta take a shit”
65I would fucking love to be a pile of goo for a couple of hours. I feel you, little caterpillar.
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They don't exactly build the cocoon. Caterpillars periodically shed their outer skin layer, and the "cocoon" is just one of those layers. Turning into soup is also quite inaccurate. This video explains the process pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RaCURU6A2o
43Basically, its like everyday you change into the same somewhat similar shirt and then one day you went to change shirt and suddenly the shirt is not the same shirt but more fabulous shirt then before ?
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How accurate is this description?
26Nice video. Yes caterpillars have a proto-wing internally before they pupate. But, as they say in the video, it’s a myth that they turn into goo in the cocoon. They don’t.
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there is so so much we don't know / can't observe / can't let ourselves realize about nature. animals know and understand far far more than we think -- just because they can't speak doesn't mean they don't feel emotions as strongly as us
20I learned this on my first acid trip. Nature is more intelligent than your average person believes, and it sucks that we take it for granted. I wish more people would open their third eye and pay attention to their surroundings.
EDIT: To add to the "there is so much we can't observe" thing, I implore anyone reading this to google the Electromagnetic Spectrum. Our senses, specifically sight and sound, can only pick up a tiny sliver of what's out there. You don't even need psychedelic drugs to understand just how little we can observe as human beings if you understand how radio waves work.
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I still remember things from when I was 3, not that weird
they're invertebrates so being goo is probably okay for them
17I know that I'll be an adult but I still don't know wtf I'm doing
16That's the best part, nobody knows what they are doing!
10Never trust people that say that they know what they're doing!
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If you replied from your phone, it's probably still in one of your hands.
13I wonder what it feels like to be a brain in a goo sac
11Has metamorphosis physiology been studied in detail with CT scans, electrodes? It sounds like one of those weird things that could really impact biology if understood in depth for things like regeneration and neuron plasticity...but maybe it's too far to be useful to humans :/
8How does goo store memories??
6The thing about turning into literal goo is a myth.
22I looked it up and apparently it's half true, they mostly turn into goo but some parts don't.
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Butterflies are just crazy animals in general. Back in the 1800s there was even a naturalist arrested in Chile because they thought he was spreading lies about them https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/insect-metamorphosis-evolution/
5Excellent Radiolab episode about this. Pretty interesting https://radiolab.org/podcast/goo-and-you
3i can't believe they still couldn't answer the question after three whole paragraphs
1There isn't any way to know. We can test memories they had from one form to the next, but only in one direction. Can't really ask them or probe their brain to find out what they know.
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Well its much easier to remember a relatively short life, but i'm not sure that they really "remember" any more than having muscle memory.
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