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Unsurprisingly, mammals (not just humans) also fear death and are very distressed when being lead to slaughter and seeing their peers go down before them.
by imjonse 12d ago
Unsurprisingly, mammals (not just humans) also fear death and are very distressed when being lead to slaughter and seeing their peers go down before them.
- isodev 12d agoApplies to every living thing with a limbic system. So yes, that steak or chicken nuggets...
- TeMPOraL 12d agoHow? Did limbic system evolve as "fear of death" or "peer recognition and perception of shared fate" system? (Not doubting the chicken nuggets, just wondering about the lower/simpler end of the scale.)
- mettamage 12d agoI mean, it wouldn’t surprise me if it is a strong selector for evolutionary fitness, which it probably is. Certain species go the other way probably and become more like a super organism but mammals seem quite individualized compared to ants for example.
- pixl97 11d ago>"peer recognition and perception of shared fate" While plants may not fear in the manner that we do, they can chemically signal when one becomes damaged or stressed and cause physiological changes in plants that are not sharing the same conditions.
- Kuyawa 12d agoAnts don't walk in line over the stove. It may not be fear, but there is something hardwired that tells them not too, or they would be extinct long ago Applies to all living organisms
- TrainedMonkey 12d agoSpeaking of ants having a survival instinct, ant death spirals are a thing. https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill
- pixl97 11d agoWe see roundworms with decentralized nervous systems show chemical traces of fear, so it is actually hardwired deep in organisms and has been there a very, very long time. Fear is just too useful as a survival mechanism.