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: : : Starfish have no brains. (I know some more people like that too.)
: : I'd have to argue that point... when the creature becomes small enough, defining a "brain" as such can bedifficult. A starfish's movements are based entirely on the animals surroundings. I guess you can think of it as a sort of if-then-else kind of logic.
: : So i guess it depends what constitutes a brain, or rather, wether the brain has to be centralised, rather than distributed. If we are going to say that a starfish has no brain, you will rule out a whole class of animals, such as small jellyfish, marine "filter feeders", various [you know those slimey slug like thingies, only much much smaller? i can't remember their name...]
: : so yeah, I'm standing up for starfish's rights to be counted as an "intelligent species"...
: Slugs?
: Snails?
: Clams?
smaller, kind of like leeches, 'cept they feed on deep sea fish... anyway, they basically drift with the currents untill they happen to bump up against another fish see, then they basically start to consume them. they are however, very small, so the fish hardly feels a thing. You can see pictures of blue whalkes with thousands of these things on them....
still can't remember what they're called though...
: : I'd have to argue that point... when the creature becomes small enough, defining a "brain" as such can bedifficult. A starfish's movements are based entirely on the animals surroundings. I guess you can think of it as a sort of if-then-else kind of logic.
: : So i guess it depends what constitutes a brain, or rather, wether the brain has to be centralised, rather than distributed. If we are going to say that a starfish has no brain, you will rule out a whole class of animals, such as small jellyfish, marine "filter feeders", various [you know those slimey slug like thingies, only much much smaller? i can't remember their name...]
: : so yeah, I'm standing up for starfish's rights to be counted as an "intelligent species"...
: Slugs?
: Snails?
: Clams?
smaller, kind of like leeches, 'cept they feed on deep sea fish... anyway, they basically drift with the currents untill they happen to bump up against another fish see, then they basically start to consume them. they are however, very small, so the fish hardly feels a thing. You can see pictures of blue whalkes with thousands of these things on them....
still can't remember what they're called though...
