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Doing a form for school and would appreciate if u could take it!
This is kinda off topic to my blog but I am writing a text on how different mental disabilities affect one’s sense of morality, and I thought adding a questionnaire to see what my own studies say about it. I made it completely anonymous so feel free to be completely honest :3
Reblogs appreciated dearly! ^_^
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The First Thought
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Disputation
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so in psychology class we got to learn why foot fetishes are so prevelant! basically your brain stores the structural information for your body generally in the correct order (i.e. the info for your ears is stored next to the info for the head, which is stored next to the neck, etc.) BUT. The info for the feet is stored right next to the info for the genitalia and so sometimes these two sections of information can overlap and make you wanna lick some toes
The article has a lot of good links, but I felt I should add this wikipedia article on the specific type of neurons that her research involves.
Also, is it shallow to say that she's now my fashion role model (I do mean in the sense that I want to become an accomplished scientist and then turn my discoveries into awesome, wearable art)? What would that even be called? Frizzle-chic? Wait, I kinda like that... Style aspirations: FRIZZLE-CHIC (Despite the fact that I generally give approximately two shits about clothing and fashion, I really kinda want to start a blog for science-related/high tech fashion called frizzle-chic.)
May-Britt Moser won a Nobel Prize for her work in neurons, wears a dress patterned with neurons. This is how you be amazing.
Neurology is actually rlly interesting nvm
You probably know that humans can experience “phantom limbs,” but did you know that the limbs of an octopus can have a “phantom body”? If you cut off an octopus’ tentacle, it will try to feed a mouth that is no longer there. A severed octopus tentacle also curls up when it’s exposed to negative stimuli like acid. Essentially, if an octopus dies and its tentacle is cut off, the tentacle can outlive the original animal by a whole hour.
Octopi have as many as 130 million neurons, but the vast majority are located in their limbs, not their brains. Their mind is “distributed.” That is fundamentally unlike the human mind. We have muscle memory, but our arms can’t move completely independently of our brains.
What does this mean for octopus consciousness? Well… we don’t know. There’s no way to observe or deduce via experiment what it’s like to be a particular animal. We can see how they behave, but we won’t ever see the world through their eyes. Science can study what is outside, but not what’s inside. So, animal consciousness isn’t really the domain of science.
As is always the case, philosophers have attempted to do what scientists cannot. The philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith has a really great way of explaining what’s at stake: “Octopuses let us ask which features of our minds can we expect to be universal whenever intelligence arises in the universe, and which are unique to us.” There’s a decent chance you’ve seen a popular Tumblr post about Umwelt Theory—the idea that animals have access to senses that we do not. Smells too refined for our noses, pitches too high for our ears, colors outside the range of our eyes. But the inner worlds of animals might be even stranger than that. The postmortem movement of octopus limbs suggests that some animal minds might be fundamentally different from ours. Simply put, it’s not just that some animals have access to sensations that we will never feel. They might have access to types of thoughts that we will never be able to think.
The tulpamancy study AMA was so exciting!! We woke up ridiculously late and all the questions we wanted to ask already had been; so happy with the level of passion from the community!
some responses from the two researchers that we found interesting/exciting:
