Are Insects Aware Of Their Own Mortality?

[Marc Spector]

the best analogy is that insects and lesser organisms are like robots. they're simply programmed with basic instructions and can do nothing else but follow those instructions.

Humans on the other hand are programmed with those same instructions .Except we KNOW we're programmed, can deviate from the programming, and can conceptualize and interact with various environments, stimuli, and concepts outside of our basic programming.

 

[skokiaan]

do insects pawg or they luh that brown sugar

 

[Nature Boy Ric Flair]

DROPPING ELBOWS ON THESE SONS OF bytchES INTO THE AFTERLIFE MY nikkaS WOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

[Adidacs]

tbh it's weird how ladybugs will be cool and chill while flies won't even let your hand get close to them

or how baby/pre-adolescent spiders will not be as cautious as regular ones

 

[Terrance Curtis Beasley]

I been studying insects for 16 years and I discovered that they are actually aware of deez nutz

 

[Kano]

What's crazy is that a lot of humans aren't

 

[North]

do they even give a fukk when they're about to die?

sometimes I think about this stuff when i'm swatting the shyt outta flies...

Let me tell you something mindblowing

Humans are the only animals conscious of their own mortality. How do we figure ? Well to understanding death as a concept would require self-awareness—you can't know that your existence will end someday unless you're consciously aware that you exist at all. (The fear of imminent death from an obvious cause is a little different, but animals can "prefer" to avoid dying without understanding death or why it's bad.)
To test their conscious scientists place a mirror in front of the said creature to see if they recognize their self...so far of all the animals tested frrom apes to elephants only mankind recoginze their likeness on a mirror as their reflection


Makes you think why are we the only ones gifted with one of the most valuable possession conscious and knowlage of our own death

This can be a strong argument for theists and a life after death

 

[SemiEnlightenedBum]

What's crazy is that a lot of humans aren't

and yet they have the nerve to wonder about insects when they behave as one their self..riddles answer their self in this 3-D bardo lil postas

 

[Neuromancer]

Let me tell you something mindblowing

Humans are the only animals conscious of their own mortality. How do we figure ? Well to understanding death as a concept would require self-awareness—you can't know that your existence will end someday unless you're consciously aware that you exist at all. (The fear of imminent death from an obvious cause is a little different, but animals can "prefer" to avoid dying without understanding death or why it's bad.)
To test their conscious scientists place a mirror in front of the said creature to see if they recognize their self...so far of all the animals tested frrom apes to elephants only mankind recoginze their likeness on a mirror as their reflection


Makes you think why are we the only ones gifted with one of the most valuable possession conscious and knowlage of our own death

This can be a strong argument for theists and a life after death

Is this a speculation or are there some studies to back it up?

 

[Archangel]

Are you one of those smart dumb ******s? What do you think the act of procreation is if it isn't about preserving your species? A fly isn't fukking the next fly because it has a phat ass but to pass on its genes as nature dictates.

Black people don't use the hard "er" breh

 

[North]

Is this a speculation or are there some studies to back it up?

No other species has been observed behaving in a way that clearly demonstrates awareness of their own mortality, though many have been observed behaving in ways that show they are aware when they are about to die or that another has died.

So its a established fact in the scientific community

 

[WaveMolecules]

i hope roaches do


SEE YOU IN HELL MOTHERfukkERS

 

[Knuckles Red]

Let me tell you something mindblowing

Humans are the only animals conscious of their own mortality. How do we figure ? Well to understanding death as a concept would require self-awareness—you can't know that your existence will end someday unless you're consciously aware that you exist at all. (The fear of imminent death from an obvious cause is a little different, but animals can "prefer" to avoid dying without understanding death or why it's bad.)
To test their conscious scientists place a mirror in front of the said creature to see if they recognize their self...so far of all the animals tested frrom apes to elephants only mankind recoginze their likeness on a mirror as their reflection


Makes you think why are we the only ones gifted with one of the most valuable possession conscious and knowlage of our own death

This can be a strong argument for theists and a life after death

Right! Like when I kill a bug in my room, and then leave it's dead body for the others to see so they'll know their ultimate fate...and then a couple days later I see another bug of the same species. Thats how I know these little fukkers aren't self-aware. Just functional, and responsive to stimulus. Or maybe they're all suicidal...

 

[Malta]

To test their conscious scientists place a mirror in front of the said creature to see if they recognize their self...so far of all the animals tested frrom apes to elephants only mankind recoginze their likeness on a mirror as their reflection


Makes you think why are we the only ones gifted with one of the most valuable possession conscious and knowlage of our own death

This can be a strong argument for theists and a life after death

The hell are you rambling about

Magpie showing self awareness -



Dolphins showing self awareness



Chimps showing self awareness



Elephants showing self awareness

 

[Neuromancer]

No other species has been observed behaving in a way that clearly demonstrates awareness of their own mortality, though many have been observed behaving in ways that show they are aware when they are about to die or that another has died.

So its a established fact in the scientific community

Apparently it's no longer factual.
Self-awareness not unique to mankind