Comment on What do you think goes through an animal’s mind and POV?
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 6 days agoMost of the things you mentioned like insects and spiders don’t have a mind. Their brains are too small for anything resembling a mind.
Jumping spiders have an interesting amount of cognition, more than I would’ve thought, and especially for their size.
Thorry@feddit.org 6 days ago
Yeah definitely, they are some of the smartest spiders out there.
I would recommend the book series Children of Time, which heavily plays with this concept and is an overall good time.
It’s hard to say if they actually have mind tho. I guess it would depend on the definition of what actually is a mind. And then you quickly get down into metaphysical stuff. We also like to frame stuff in terms of human concepts (which makes sense, being human), where the mind of an animal (especially something like an octopus with it’s more distributed intelligence) might be so foreign or alien it doesn’t even compare.