Some sea slugs behead themselves and then regrow their bodies
( , Tue 9 Mar 2021, 6:01, Share, Reply)
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Are they beheading themselves or debodying themselves?
Call a metaphysicist!
( , Tue 9 Mar 2021, 9:13, Share, Reply)
Call a metaphysicist!
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actually, according to the article the heads regrow bodies but the bodies don't regrow heads
so it's the latter, in the sense that the organism that persists with all its functions returning is the head. HTH
( , Tue 9 Mar 2021, 10:36, Share, Reply)
so it's the latter, in the sense that the organism that persists with all its functions returning is the head. HTH
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Oh, I see what you mean.
Yeah. That makes sense.
It also helps explain why I keep the metaphysics part of my job as stripped-back as possible.
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Yeah. That makes sense.
It also helps explain why I keep the metaphysics part of my job as stripped-back as possible.
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the headless body can keep going quite happily for several months, so it's not so cut and dried.
At least, not so dried. add to this the usual seasluggish detachable sex organs and hermaphroditism and it can get quite complicated who's driving the train
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At least, not so dried. add to this the usual seasluggish detachable sex organs and hermaphroditism and it can get quite complicated who's driving the train
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I don't think the headless body would be happy if it was cut and dried.
I think it would be pretty dead if you did that to it.
( , Tue 9 Mar 2021, 10:51, Share, Reply)
I think it would be pretty dead if you did that to it.
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ha
at least seaslugs don't end up putting fanny batter in candles
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at least seaslugs don't end up putting fanny batter in candles
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Who needs candles when you are hermaphroditic and have detachable sex organs!
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This always bothered me, growing up.
I always considered the "self" as being in the head, so you were never cutting their head off, you were cutting their body off.
Over the years I have painstakingly learned to have normal conversations too.
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I always considered the "self" as being in the head, so you were never cutting their head off, you were cutting their body off.
Over the years I have painstakingly learned to have normal conversations too.
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"You took your time, you bastard!"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcoWdrerLdU&ab_channel=BBCStudios
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcoWdrerLdU&ab_channel=BBCStudios
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