- lowleveldata ( @lowleveldata@programming.dev ) English27•4 months ago
So my head is not “inside” my skull but *is* my skull? Is the brain not a part of my head?
- PrimeErective ( @PrimeErective@startrek.website ) English21•4 months ago
What part of you makes you? Is it just your brain?
Anyway, I think what they’re getting at is that the shell is actually their spine, not like some extra thing that grows on top of their spine.
- GlenRambo ( @GlenRambo@jlai.lu ) English8•4 months ago
Most ppl think they have a skeleton inside them. But If you think of you as your brain (as many would day). Then your actually inside your skeleton.
- PrimeErective ( @PrimeErective@startrek.website ) English10•4 months ago
Behold, a human being.
- lowleveldata ( @lowleveldata@programming.dev ) English4•4 months ago
I get what they try to say. But it’s just funny that they correct a statement with another wrong statement.
- PrimeErective ( @PrimeErective@startrek.website ) English3•4 months ago
What part of the second statement is wrong? A turtle cannot survive without its shell, just like you could not survive without your skull. It is an intrinsic part of what allows it to function as a living organism, therefore the line between “turtle” and “shell” is a bit blurred
- lowleveldata ( @lowleveldata@programming.dev ) English1•4 months ago
You cannot survive without air but you’re not air
- PrimeErective ( @PrimeErective@startrek.website ) English5•4 months ago
I mean yes, no one, human or turtle, can survive without the ecosystem of the earth, so you could really argue that the planet is the true organism and we are simply byproducts of its existence
- lowleveldata ( @lowleveldata@programming.dev ) English1•4 months ago
Yet you won’t argue that you are the earth. Why would you argue that a turtle is the same as a turtle’s shell then?
- PrimeErective ( @PrimeErective@startrek.website ) English3•4 months ago
Where can you really draw the line? Could you survive in space without any air or equipment? Even if you could, where did the equipment and air come from?
Photosynthetic organisms are for all practical purposes part of your lungs
- Tlaloc_Temporal ( @Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ) English3•4 months ago
You can bring extra air and survive just fine.
You can’t bring an extra skull.
Likewise, a hermit crab can bring an extra shell, but a turtle cannot bring an extra shell.
- flora_explora ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) English4•4 months ago
I think the right analogy would be to say “you are not inside your skull, you are your skull”. And I would count this as a more or less correct statement.
- lowleveldata ( @lowleveldata@programming.dev ) English1•4 months ago
Am I my skull? So I get to live as long as my skull is not decayed?
- flora_explora ( @flora_explora@beehaw.org ) English2•4 months ago
Well, that’s the paradox isn’t it? We are our minds but somehow we also are our bodies.
- Empricorn ( @Empricorn@feddit.nl ) English4•4 months ago
Can you put any external part of yourself inside your skull? That’s the difference.
- No_Change_Just_Money ( @No_Change_Just_Money@feddit.de ) English3•4 months ago
*shows toungue and puts it back in
- Empricorn ( @Empricorn@feddit.nl ) English2•4 months ago
Ooo, good point. But is it moving an internal part outside the skull? What’s the default location of a tongue?? I’m lost in the science!
- lugal ( @lugal@sopuli.xyz ) English4•4 months ago
According to scientists, the default is outside
source
- aname ( @lauha@lemmy.one ) English1•4 months ago
I can, though probably only once
- Fridgeratr ( @Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English18•4 months ago
Idk I see a big cavity that would contain turtle…
- Destide ( @sirico@feddit.uk ) English16•4 months ago
That’s tortoise silly billy
- VerPoilu ( @VerPoilu@sopuli.xyz ) English7•4 months ago
Turtoises are turtles ya dingbat
https://www.britannica.com/story/whats-the-difference-between-a-turtle-and-a-tortoise
- blindsight ( @blindsight@beehaw.org ) English12•4 months ago
I learned from Franklin books and Mario games that you’re wrong. A picture showing a clear cavity where a turtle could pop out won’t convince me!
- 1984 ( @1984@lemmy.today ) English2•4 months ago
I see no brain in this picture.