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What about Portia[0]? I have often read about the intelligence and eyesight that jumping spiders have. My pet theory is that invertebrate intelligence is more
by wydfre 5y ago
What about Portia[0]? I have often read about the intelligence and eyesight that jumping spiders have.
My pet theory is that invertebrate intelligence is more popular in the universe and among galactic federations or what have you.
[0]: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.568049/full https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.5680...
- porkbrain 5y agoBlindsight by Peter Watts is a great sci-fi novel in which the author explores an idea somewhat similar your pet theory.
- ravi-delia 5y agoThe sequel actually goes there by name
- gpderetta 5y agoI did not enjoy exchopraxia as much as blindsight, but loved the treatise on the portia spiders.
- plutonorm 5y agoWhy would aliens follow standard invertebrate non invertebrate evolutionary lines? I can imagine a world where vertebrates are generally smaller and simpler creatures. What if insects had evolved efficient lungs and vertebrates had not?