The Dislyte devs gave this 35 yr old male butler, Drew, a sexy British voice and gentlemen type personality so I have a question *switches to Markiplier impression* Would this make me a furry if I said smash?
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well now ya GOTTA tell me about octupi!!!
okay so like. a lot of the reason i found human neuroscience so Boring is because everyone is always obsessed with like. 'oh this bit which is psychology' and blah blah blah and psychology is so Fluffy and Bland and 90% of the time people are just talking about like. magic mushrooms. like just do the fucking mushrooms, cowards.
ANYWAYS what i liked about neuroscience or like. why i wanted to study it is because i have a lot of people in my life with neurological conditions/stuff. my mum has epilepsy, as does my brother, one of my friends sustained a spinal cord injury a few years before i started university (don't go skydiving folks). one of my aunts passed due to MS. my grandfather suffers from alzheimers.
unlike the more psychology-oriented stuff, these conditions are like. physically observable degradations or interruptions of the nervous system. we, more or less, Know what's going on. we just don't know how to fix it.
(side note: on the off chance anyone except alyshara reads this, you can fuck right off before doing that whole 'social model of disability' thing. yes it is a useful model for SOME conditions. the conditions i am talking about are not among them. nothing is 'social' about convulsive seizures or chronic pain or dementia.)
what's going on, in the simplest of terms, is that the nervous system - be it the brain, the spinal cord, the synapses, whatever - is degrading. and we have to stop that happening. and then repair it.
so where the fuck do octopuses come in? well, i'm glad you asked.
octopuses have different nervous systems to us. very different. only about 1% of our nerve cells exist outside of our central nervous system (that is to say, our brain and spine). about two thirds of an octopus' nerve cells are in their limbs.
reflex reactions happen when our nerves bypass our brain to Get Shit Done Quicker, and for the most part that's very simple stuff. move hand away from flame. jerk leg back from sharp thing. etc.
octopus limbs can react like a reflex, the way our spinal cord would, but in a far more complex manner. grab the thing. change colour. change texture. etc. if it helps, think of them as slightly more advanced spinal cords. eight of them. now, there are whole debates to have if an octopus' limbs are effectively a hive mind connected to the central brain, if their limbs have consciousness. i don't really care to be honest. i don't think that's a productive scientific question.
what's really fucking cool about this? if an octopus loses a limb (each of which contains just under thirty eight million neurons) it just fucking. grows a new one. just regrows the whole fucking thing. and it works they can do that. we Can't. we just can't. our neurons don't regenerate, really. and certainly not to that extent. peripheral nerves? sure. that's mostly fine. it's tough, but we can do it. the cns? forget it.
(now, to be fair, this depends enormously on the type of damage and/or degradation you're looking at. our bodies are incredible structures capable of amazing things. but for the most part, medical professionals have to spend years retraining our nerves to do what an octopus just entirely replaces from scratch in a matter of weeks.
imagine if we could figure out how to replicate that with us. imagine the lives we could change. imagine the pain we could relieve. imagine the world we could make.
so yeah. octopus neuroscience is pretty fucking cool.
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get to know me tag!
thx @lynxindisguise for the tag xoxoxoxo
rules: tag 10 people you want to get to know better
relationship status: taken! living together! maybe marriage one day? the more i learn about taxes the better marriage seems....
favourite colour: forest green
stuck in my head: a sort of humming noise...no thoughts.......head empty..............
last song i listened to: idk what song was last (maybe carolina by taylor swift?) but i have been listening to the normal gossip podcast!
3 favourite foods: sushi, pizza, vindaloo
last thing i googled: ‘where to buy cucumber bitters’ (i did not find any cucumber bitters....socal mutuals if you know where to find them lmk!)
dream trip: antarctica! i want to go to all the continents. so far i’ve only been to two, so i’ve got a lot of trips ahead of me.......
anyway! tagging some peeps! as usual i have paid absolutely no attention to who’s already done this, so. play along if you want! @a-fiery-fox @tigolbittys @redlipstickandglitter @second-sister @tahtahfornow @mblematic @pancakehouse @colgatebluemintygel @thebloatedfrog @moongays @blackberry-sunset (is that 10? it’s something....)
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