how old were you when you learned that mantis shrimp probably can't actually see way more colors than us, and actually probably see less, and that they have so many kinds of color receptors because they are too stupid to combine multiple together
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@enkiv2 "As Heidegger puts it, the potential for seeing is what makes the eye, not vice versa. After all, an eyeball created by random mutation would just sit around as useless dead weight if the rest of the organism were not already open to outside influence by light." ~ Graham Harman, /Heidegger Explained/ under "Tools and Organs"
