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[-] XTL@sopuli.xyz 6 points 9 months ago

Being able to turn into metal/sand/water/bats/lettuce or whatever without additional magic would destroy the structure and state of your brain immediately.

[-] elbarto777@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I think you guys are overthinking things too much. In a world in which some magical phenomenon can turn you into a lettuce, all of a sudden you draw the line at brain functions?

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

Obviously the brain is just encoded into the lettuce DNA

[-] semi_sentient@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 months ago

Maybe it works like caterpillar goop in the cocoon. It’s goop, and not exactly a caterpillar anymore, but experiments have shown that there’s at least some persistence of being, even after the former caterpillar-goop has become a butterfly. E.g. If you train a caterpillar to react to a specific stimuli with a negative response, the resultant butterfly will respond to the same stimuli in the same way that the caterpillar did.

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