• PrimeErective@startrek.website
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    5 months ago

    What part of you makes you? Is it just your brain?

    Anyway, I think what they’re getting at is that the shell is actually their spine, not like some extra thing that grows on top of their spine.

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      5 months ago

      Most ppl think they have a skeleton inside them. But If you think of you as your brain (as many would day). Then your actually inside your skeleton.

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        5 months ago

        What part of the second statement is wrong? A turtle cannot survive without its shell, just like you could not survive without your skull. It is an intrinsic part of what allows it to function as a living organism, therefore the line between “turtle” and “shell” is a bit blurred

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            5 months ago

            I mean yes, no one, human or turtle, can survive without the ecosystem of the earth, so you could really argue that the planet is the true organism and we are simply byproducts of its existence

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              Yet you won’t argue that you are the earth. Why would you argue that a turtle is the same as a turtle’s shell then?