restingOfaceomg hes just like me
https://quokk.au/c/lemmyshitpost/p/786916/omg-hes-just-like-me
exists for no clear reason
Sounds like Humans
Sounds like everything, if you’re leaning nihilist.
Well, there’s the one obvious one - mouth through to the anus, there may be more openings to that hole, but I don’t believe any of them go all the way through.
That changes the topology though. It does go all the way through a section which prevents it from reshaping into a straw/donut
Two more out the nose
They go through the same hole as the mouth in the end, though. At least a part of them…
I think I said in another comment that I’m not an actual expert on this matter. So there may well be more holes in this theory, and person.
They go through the same hole as the mouth in the end, though.
Yes, but they’re distinct openings, which means we’re not topologically equivalent to a doughnut when you take them into account. Topological equivalence implies that you can transform one object into another without changing the number of openings. Classic example is a doughnut and a coffee mug (the handle of a coffee mug is the opening). A human would be equivalent to a doughnut with two holes poked through the side into the middle.
Mouth, Anus, Nasal Passages (2), Occular passages (2), Aural passages (2) = 8. -1 for topology reasons (one “hole” is a divot, not a tube, and a divot is topologically equivalent to a smooth surface) = 7.
Math checks out. (And I think stand-up maths or some other maths youtuber did a longer version of this post with more detailed and complete reasoning.)
I would post the human floss video. But it seems to be lost media. It was of a guy who got extra strength floss, tied it to one of his teeth, and one end to a pen lid… Swallowed the entire roll. Found the lid days later, and then pulled it back and forth, to floss himself. The video would be +10 years old.
No clear reason? It’s because the thing can successfully make more of itself before dying. That’s literally it.
See also: ticks
*nothing has
Okay, we’re listening. First establish some framework of “reasons to exist” so we understand what that even means, and then tell us yours. Centuries of philosophy haven’t gotten past the first step and you probably won’t either, but I won’t stop you from trying. Okay, go.
Okay but you could still do step 1 without revealing anything personal. Tell us: what even is a “reason to exist?”
Because not existing is …
Damnit! Who let Socrates in here again? /gets broom and starts pushing
Shoo! Begone philosopher! Nobody likes your kind!
AxolotlYeah man but does God have a Divine plan for him? Or does he just like have to make his own way? Or is his entire life just like a cosmic accident and it makes no difference if he lives or dies?
Lung
felixwhynotScientists do love to talk about worms
This has some details: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenacoelomorpha?wprov=sfti1…
TheTechnician27Bit of clarification: Xenacoelomorpha is the phylum that the genus Xenoturbella is under.
Someone left a tag at the top of the Xenacoelomorpha article advocating a rewrite, which I could probably quickly investigate (or even just check WoRMS) if I weren’t currently a lazy lump of dead weight. Without assessing the tag’s merits, I’d at least advise treading lightly as a heuristic.
I don’t think any natural thing exists for a reason. That’s reserved for things made with intention by sentient beings.
Exist for no reason? All life has a purpose, and that is to poop. The excrement speaks for itself.
It sounds like it doesn’t have a poop hole
Edit: oh, nevermind. “For food to enter and exit”
Poop is subsistence, Sex is persistence
finallymadeanaccountSounds like the pinnacle of evolution.
You know, simple tools like
cat? Same thing in software engineering.
mojofrododojovomits the poop
have had norovirus, know that feel
If the hole doesn’t go through, it is only a pocket, typographically identical to a plate.
*topologically
maybe they meant
O
As in “topographically”, which specifically refers to land surfaces?
I know. I was joking. It’s a visual pun on how a feeding tube of the creature, a dinner plate and the capital O would look similar- hence typographical.
Why is the digestive sack not an organ?
Organs are a distinct structure made of multiple tissues. So if this thing is just a few layers of tissue, then you can make the argument that the whole creature is essentially a single-organ organism.
Truth be told, I suspect there is a certain amount of hyperbole in the infographic.
Kinda like a one stroke engine. The fuel and the exhaust all just mix.
It’s gross, but I can’t see any reason this disqualifies it from being on the tree of life.
recently the phylogenetic studies place this with another unusual bilaterian animal( very basal animals(Post-sponge creatures), they couldnt figure out which things this is related to.
Doesn’t belong. Too lame!
is that a living fleshlight?
c’mon! just the tip!
I promise I’ll stop after that!
It’s disturbing to me that so many people search for what something is used for or what’s the value or right to life a creature has. The point of life is to live. If you are successful you maybe make a child or split into a copy of yourself when you get enough food.
Purpose is something you accept for yourself. Imposing it on others is diabolically evil when they don’t have a thing to do with your clade. And still, it would be the case that a person would look at an animal and say “what’s the point of you?”