r/whatisit • u/Cultural_Fall_3255 • 4h ago

New, what is it? What is this thing.

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u/Equal_Campaign_8386 4h ago

Right! It looks lika a small robot.

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u/gungyvt 3h ago

Bugs kinda are like small natural robots. If you watch them enough, you realize most of them function off a set program for survival and only deviate from it when receiving new input/stimulation (some stuff like small amounts of wind, scents, chemicals, etc aren't easily detected by humans, but still affect this). And I'm no expert, but I'm pretty sure bug joints don't move with fibers and tension, but with hydraulic pressure.

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u/_AcuteNewt_ 2h ago

you watch them enough, you realize most of them function off a set program for survival and only deviate from it when receiving new input/stimulation.

If you watch humans enough, you'll notice the same.

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u/Stewart_Games 2h ago

Having our own wills is just an illusion. All is chemistry, pre-ordained from the start of time by the motion of molecules. The Great Clockmaker has wound the machine, and will watch it spin out for a few billion years and then stop. Perhaps, to modify its mechanisms and wind it once more.

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u/ockersrazor 2h ago

Absolutely, I think humans are deterministic, but there's a tiny modicum of some volitional choice in certain contexts.

If you are unaccustomed to gunshots and you suddenly hear one, odds are you will flee — this is a high-stakes scenario wherein your behaviour is somewhat deterministic.

When in low-stakes, such as interacting with a friend, the functionally infinite, contextual variables that you are subconsciously processing allow for a range of behaviours where you have volitional control; what you say, or do with them, for example. Is your decision in this context always pre-determined, or is this when our higher order thinking allows for more nuanced, "free will" control? 

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u/Individual-Nose5010 2h ago

The fact that we can simply say no to a large number of those things proves otherwise.

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u/Not_A_Casual 2h ago

Every living thing is like a biological robot

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u/tenn_ 1h ago

We're just a brain with tentacles nerves piloting a mech made of meat and bone

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u/AWildRaticate 2h ago

Grasshoppers literally have gears in their legs

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u/Meanteenbirder 1h ago

I mean, that’s kinda why they were able to recreate a fruit fly brain this year

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u/CumGuzlinGutterSluts 2h ago

Oddly a fitting description for most bugs

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u/ecarbon24 3h ago

My thoughts exactly. Props to whoever made this cuz it looks real as hell but the head movements are just not selling it

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u/-Nate493- 3h ago

It looks and sounds exactly like a type of Longhorn beetle.

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u/dangerous_beans 3h ago

That's just how longhorn beetles do

https://youtu.be/JrRMZQ40G5U?is=SROlVvVew-d6EXkI

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u/MuseBlessed 3h ago

Good link: https://youtu.be/JrRMZQ40G5U

Tracker (placed by the longhorn beetles for revenge): ?is=SROlVvVew-d6EXkI

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u/Valuable-Morning-346 3h ago

Imagine being such a f*cked up species that some apes rule out the possibility of your existence🤣🤣🤣

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u/Brainwave1010 3h ago

Like that one cuttlefish that immediately got laughed at by the people who discovered it because it looked like a toy.

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u/ecarbon24 1h ago

Lol at my ape brain thinking I understand other species 😅