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- Sep 2023
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here's one familiar example here we start with a caterpillar this is 00:07:12 a creature that lives in a in a largely two-dimensional world that crawls around on flat surfaces it chews leaves and it has a brain appropriate for that purpose it has to turn into a butterfly
- for: morphogenesis, morphogenesis - example - butterfly
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- the caterpillar is a soft-bodied creature that lives in a in a largely two-dimensional world that:
- crawls around on flat surfaces
- chews leaves and
- has a brain appropriate for that purpose
- it has to turn into a butterfly which is a hard-bodied creature that
- lives in a three-dimensional world
- has to fly it has to drink nectar
- needs a completely different brain suited to a hard-bodied organism
- in between what happens is during this process the brain is largely largely destroyed
- most of the connections are broken down
- most of the cells die and and
- the new brain is rebuilt during the lifetime of the organism
- this kind of change makes the the confusion of puberty seemed like child's play
- This is a single agent radically changing its brain and its body
- The amazing thing about it is that it has been shown that the memories that the caterpillar acquires are retained in the moth or butterfly
- Despite the disaggregation of the brain, some information is able to make it across to the butterfly or moth
- the caterpillar is a soft-bodied creature that lives in a in a largely two-dimensional world that:
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