The dragonfly must be steering based on prediction, not reaction. This requires not only an internal model, a representation of where the prey is going, but also of how to distinguish its own motion from the prey motion.
The video not only looks fake, but creepy too—Tilly has a seasick smile and her nausea is palpably felt by the viewer.
1d ago
A human being is part of a whole, called by us the Universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
3d ago
The terror of the unfamiliar is the root of all superstition; yet the familiar itself is but the accumulated strangeness of yesterday.
4d ago
We live on the surface of things. The only depth we know is the depth of our own ignorance when we mistake appearance for reality.
1w ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
