Is a Spider's Web a Part of Its Mind?
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Date: 2023-11-16
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Simone
Brilliant question, but actually the first question to ask is is the net part of the spider's body. The commentary implicitly says it isn't, because quotes scientists claiming that a spider's mind extends out of its body into the net. But actually it is. The net comes out from the spider's body, goes back into it if eaten, is always in contact with other body parts for the whole of its existence. It is by all means part of the spider's nervous system, carrying sensorial input to the brain. It actually constitutes part, perhaps the totality, of the proprioceptive word a spider lives in, and is the only interface the spider has with the outside word, for, as we are are taught, a spider is blind.
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Brilliant question, but actually the first question to ask is is the net part of the spider's body. The commentary implicitly says it isn't, because quotes scientists claiming that a spider's mind extends out of its body into the net. But actually it is. The net comes out from the spider's body, goes back into it if eaten, is always in contact with other body parts for the whole of its existence. It is by all means part of the spider's nervous system, carrying sensorial input to the brain. It actually constitutes part, perhaps the totality, of the proprioceptive word a spider lives in, and is the only interface the spider has with the outside word, for, as we are are taught, a spider is blind.
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Reeced
Understandably the most simplest way to understand and actually confirm this theory u would have to put the spider in a complete other portioned place even right beside it's web and enable experiments on the web without the spider knowing what was being done to the web and even then u can keep the web attached to the spider to see if that would help it acknowledge the fact something is happening to the web aka the mind. Let me know if anyone would be interesting into proving this theory! . It's quite easy!
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Understandably the most simplest way to understand and actually confirm this theory u would have to put the spider in a complete other portioned place even right beside it's web and enable experiments on the web without the spider knowing what was being done to the web and even then u can keep the web attached to the spider to see if that would help it acknowledge the fact something is happening to the web aka the mind. Let me know if anyone would be interesting into proving this theory! . It's quite easy!
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Taylor
How are you going to make the clame [a spiders web]. It's a map of the spider's memories. And not elaborate that. You call your selfs Deep Look when all you do is lazily explaine its basic biology, and then make a wild clame with no context.
Now if I am wrong post the time stamp, a video, or a link to a trusted scientific paper to prove me wrong.
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How are you going to make the clame [a spiders web]. It's a map of the spider's memories. And not elaborate that. You call your selfs Deep Look when all you do is lazily explaine its basic biology, and then make a wild clame with no context.
Now if I am wrong post the time stamp, a video, or a link to a trusted scientific paper to prove me wrong.
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weylin6
Are you saying it's like when you're driving a car and the vehicle becomes a sensory extension of yourself?
You sense things beyond the reach of your body, and your zone of self expands to that of your vehicle, and you become the car, a creature with no other motive than to reach its destination by any means possible as fast as possible: P
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Are you saying it's like when you're driving a car and the vehicle becomes a sensory extension of yourself?
You sense things beyond the reach of your body, and your zone of self expands to that of your vehicle, and you become the car, a creature with no other motive than to reach its destination by any means possible as fast as possible: P
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Lynelle
me: Ooooo look i got a big one lets fight
friend: ha! you think that is big check out mine
me: but i still wanna fight
friend 2: after you 2 r done im next
me: lost the fight ah dang it
friend: puts spider in the match box better luck next time
( im a filipino btw and if you know you know)
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me: Ooooo look i got a big one lets fight
friend: ha! you think that is big check out mine
me: but i still wanna fight
friend 2: after you 2 r done im next
me: lost the fight ah dang it
friend: puts spider in the match box better luck next time
( im a filipino btw and if you know you know)
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Kirklan
Have you ever seen attic web? When I was 10, my family was moving to another town and I helped clean the attic of my parents old home. The spiderweb in there was like a thick cloth instead of the thin strands it usually is. It was super hard to remove. My childish mind thought it was pretty indestructible.
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Have you ever seen attic web? When I was 10, my family was moving to another town and I helped clean the attic of my parents old home. The spiderweb in there was like a thick cloth instead of the thin strands it usually is. It was super hard to remove. My childish mind thought it was pretty indestructible.
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WorthySoul
Spiders are some of the most amazing, diverse and talented creatures on this planet. It's sad that they're also the most feared despite their size and harmless nature. Yes, even the very venomous ones like black widows don't exactly enjoy biting, and prefer to run away.
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Spiders are some of the most amazing, diverse and talented creatures on this planet. It's sad that they're also the most feared despite their size and harmless nature. Yes, even the very venomous ones like black widows don't exactly enjoy biting, and prefer to run away.
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Pepe
I think it's more likely that the spider builds a standard shape of web, and it can tell when the web is damaged or deformed. It can tell by the deformation where the object causing the disturbance is. Beyond that it is only to remember whether or not they have food.
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I think it's more likely that the spider builds a standard shape of web, and it can tell when the web is damaged or deformed. It can tell by the deformation where the object causing the disturbance is. Beyond that it is only to remember whether or not they have food.
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Globgibga
Ive got a giant colony of these spiders that have a tail like a scorpion in my backyard. They have long strings of egg sacks sprawled across their webs. Theres at least 20 individual spiders on the cluster, each with their own web. And yes, I live in Australia.
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Ive got a giant colony of these spiders that have a tail like a scorpion in my backyard. They have long strings of egg sacks sprawled across their webs. Theres at least 20 individual spiders on the cluster, each with their own web. And yes, I live in Australia.
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Drakon
Portia Fimbriata jumping spiders can learn and remember things for quite some time without needing a web home. So webs may help some spiders with that stuff but not this one. Unless Ive missed something in my small amount of research on these spiders
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Portia Fimbriata jumping spiders can learn and remember things for quite some time without needing a web home. So webs may help some spiders with that stuff but not this one. Unless Ive missed something in my small amount of research on these spiders
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Vfr
Person with arachnophobia: Destroy spiders!
Me: so you want to have bugs annoying you?
Person with arachnophobia: uh, no.
Me: spiders eat bugs so they won't annoy you.
Person with arachnophobia: um, okay, spiders are good.
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Person with arachnophobia: Destroy spiders!
Me: so you want to have bugs annoying you?
Person with arachnophobia: uh, no.
Me: spiders eat bugs so they won't annoy you.
Person with arachnophobia: um, okay, spiders are good.
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agung
I love spiders. I found them fascinating. I dont understand why most people hate them. Anyway, the background music fits perfectly with the video. If a spider was a sound, the background music would be what a spider sound like.
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I love spiders. I found them fascinating. I dont understand why most people hate them. Anyway, the background music fits perfectly with the video. If a spider was a sound, the background music would be what a spider sound like.
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PsyMongazoid
Hmm. We don't know where our memories are stored, and we don't know much about the physicality of our minds beyond our physical brain so to start drawing conclusions about less studied species is a bit of a stretch.
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Hmm. We don't know where our memories are stored, and we don't know much about the physicality of our minds beyond our physical brain so to start drawing conclusions about less studied species is a bit of a stretch.
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sans
My boyfriend and I found that same spider species yesterday. I kidnapped him from the park and named him Bartholomew. He was saved from a sink when his mother tried to flush him down it. He is truly a survivor.
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My boyfriend and I found that same spider species yesterday. I kidnapped him from the park and named him Bartholomew. He was saved from a sink when his mother tried to flush him down it. He is truly a survivor.
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Rodney
Common misconception. spiders do not actually suck anything through their fangs. The fangs are only for delivery of venom. They in fact have a mouth situated just below the fangs.
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Common misconception. spiders do not actually suck anything through their fangs. The fangs are only for delivery of venom. They in fact have a mouth situated just below the fangs.
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Maxbps
I love these documentaries on spiders.
But they always make me too aware of every simple strange sensation on my skin making me think I have 'something' crawling on me.
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I love these documentaries on spiders.
But they always make me too aware of every simple strange sensation on my skin making me think I have 'something' crawling on me.
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Rodney
I love spiders and arachnids of all types, tarantulas a bit more specificly. I can't think of a better place to be then surrounded by a bunch of 8 legged skeeter eaters.
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I love spiders and arachnids of all types, tarantulas a bit more specificly. I can't think of a better place to be then surrounded by a bunch of 8 legged skeeter eaters.
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Fred
My students wanted to tell you that your video was excellent. They are practicing English by watching and reading all sorts of texts, and we used this one today. Thanks!
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My students wanted to tell you that your video was excellent. They are practicing English by watching and reading all sorts of texts, and we used this one today. Thanks!
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Dracoola
I once put a maggot on a web. The spider caught it and the maggot literally got sucked out in minutes until it was a rice husk eeewww
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I once put a maggot on a web. The spider caught it and the maggot literally got sucked out in minutes until it was a rice husk eeewww
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Alexandre
Spiders fascinate me. I observe them for hours.
I love them.
They are our friends and allies against flies and mosquitos.
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Spiders fascinate me. I observe them for hours.
I love them.
They are our friends and allies against flies and mosquitos.
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Henrique
The cross orb weaver spider is my favorite of the web spinning spiders that guy looks awsome even when we see him from up closs
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The cross orb weaver spider is my favorite of the web spinning spiders that guy looks awsome even when we see him from up closs
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xiru
If I was a spider and my web was ruined by someone I would be hella irritated like i fr made that and you came to ruin it?
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If I was a spider and my web was ruined by someone I would be hella irritated like i fr made that and you came to ruin it?
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Steven
3: 53 scientists think that a spider's mind radiates out through it's web
really?
sounds like tool-use to me
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3: 53 scientists think that a spider's mind radiates out through it's web
really?
sounds like tool-use to me
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Curtis
See the spiderlings testing out their skills
Oh yeah I see them, now Im gonna test out my flamethrower skills
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See the spiderlings testing out their skills
Oh yeah I see them, now Im gonna test out my flamethrower skills
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Xz36
0: 19 please don't insult the spider's intelligence. This is not an artist, it is not a barista, THIS IS AN ENGINEER
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0: 19 please don't insult the spider's intelligence. This is not an artist, it is not a barista, THIS IS AN ENGINEER
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Frank
I never knew spiders use a wide sheet of silk to wrap prey. I thought it was a normal single strand of silk.
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I never knew spiders use a wide sheet of silk to wrap prey. I thought it was a normal single strand of silk.
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vlad
Now the true question is spider silk edible and does it have all 9 types of protein if so then cowabunga
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Now the true question is spider silk edible and does it have all 9 types of protein if so then cowabunga
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pretty
Humans also have an extension to their brain located outside their bodies. Do u know what it is? p
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Humans also have an extension to their brain located outside their bodies. Do u know what it is? p
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