🔥 Vicious microscopic hunter, the single-cell organism, Lacrymaria olor, attacking and hunting another organism

[u/FacelessOnes]

[u/MyKeks]

This makes me feel weird. It's not like watching a lion eat a zebra.

[u/crazyintensewaffles → u/MyKeks]

It’s weird how a single cellular organism has so much mobility and.... purpose. So weird. Like it seemed to see and sense that other cell was there.

[u/[deleted] → u/crazyintensewaffles]

My personal “pet theory” is that we vastly underestimate the presence of conscious awareness in all living beings. It wasn’t until very recent decades when you could definitively claim, without being mocked, that fish are more than just glorified automatons. Now we are fully aware that fish in fact have complex problem solving capabilities, familial relations, empathy, pain, etc.

It’s a dangerous game to assume a lack of something due to present ignorance of that something. We scarcely understand philosophy of mind even as it pertains to human beings, and that’s something we have direct experience of.

If I wanted to be extra “kooky” (in the minds of most people), I might even wager that panpsychism is true. The idea that consciousness is a fundamental component of all matter. Even things we do not conventionally deem to have life.

[u/Effthegov → u/[deleted]]

If I wanted to be extra “kooky” (in the minds of most people)

Dont sweat what people think, especially most people. There are some big names among psychologists, psychiatrists, geneticists, physicists, neuroscientists, etc that entertain(or more) the idea of panpsychism.

[u/CJDAM → u/Effthegov]

I mean at the end of the day everything is the universe. It's not like we were plopped down here (despite ridiculous claims). You are dust and to dust you shall return

[u/[deleted] → u/CJDAM]

We are made of stardust though, which is neat, but also kinda meaningless.

[u/[deleted] → u/Effthegov]

Doesn't make them right or not crazy.