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TBF if someone tased you every time you set your phone down you'd fucking remember

I only turn into goo after a particularly bad day at work, though.
- Or for the pretty ladies, but that's different.
- Or after Shinji has had a particularly bad day at work.
- Ready for the bucket, Odo?
Parenting method from the year 3000
- bold of you to assume that you will be able to put down your phone in the year 3000...

I imagine they feel like “man, I really need to turn to goo” in the same way we are like “man, I really gotta take a shit”

I would fucking love to be a pile of goo for a couple of hours. I feel you, little caterpillar.
- In the wild while someone might interrupt the process tho? No, no thanks
- Odo, is that you?

They don't exactly build the cocoon. Caterpillars periodically shed their outer skin layer, and the "cocoon" is just one of those layers. Turning into soup is also quite inaccurate. This video explains the process pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RaCURU6A2o

Basically, its like everyday you change into the same somewhat similar shirt and then one day you went to change shirt and suddenly the shirt is not the same shirt but more fabulous shirt then before ?

They don't know they're going to be butterflies. They are driven by instinct to build the cocoon. It is a natural urge, an irresistible drive.

Insects with their tiny brains never really "know" what they're doing. They just do.
- Sounds like the conservatives

How accurate is this description?

Quite.
https://youtu.be/4RaCURU6A2o?si=v2Ba0h2_r5OAtEPe
- Nice video. Yes caterpillars have a proto-wing internally before they pupate. But, as they say in the video, it’s a myth that they turn into goo in the cocoon. They don’t.

there is so so much we don't know / can't observe / can't let ourselves realize about nature. animals know and understand far far more than we think -- just because they can't speak doesn't mean they don't feel emotions as strongly as us

i can't believe they still couldn't answer the question after three whole paragraphs

There isn't any way to know. We can test memories they had from one form to the next, but only in one direction.
- Not with that attitude

I know that I'll be an adult but I still don't know wtf I'm doing

That's the best part, nobody knows what they are doing!
- Never trust people that say that they know what they're doing!

I wonder what it feels like to be a brain in a goo sac

I mean, that's pretty much what we are.
A brain driving a meat puppet.
- The brain is also meat.
- Hey now... Modern science has grown to where we now understand that we are an entire nervous system driving a meat puppet.
- They’re made out of meat?!

If you replied from your phone, it's probably still in one of your hands.

Has metamorphosis physiology been studied in detail with CT scans, electrodes? It sounds like one of those weird things that could really impact biology if understood in depth for things like regeneration and neuron plasticity...but maybe it's too far to be useful to humans :/

How does goo store memories??

The thing about turning into literal goo is a myth.
- I looked it up and apparently it's half true, they mostly turn into goo but some parts don't.

Excellent Radiolab episode about this. Pretty interesting https://radiolab.org/podcast/goo-and-you