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Moths (and other insects) evolved to use transverse orientation to fly level at night by using distant bodies of light (stars, moon), essentially trying to fly
by Modified3019 1y ago
Moths (and other insects) evolved to use transverse orientation to fly level at night by using distant bodies of light (stars, moon), essentially trying to fly perpendicular to light above.
Sources of light which are physically close disrupt this instinct.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-44785-3 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-44785-3
- jazzyjackson 1y agoAn apt metaphor as humans evolved to orient themselves based on information (in the strict sense of novel data) and so all it takes to trap a human in a continuous cycle of hitting themselves against a wall is to create a wall of continuously novel information