Cuttlefish: the male cross-dresser and moral decadence

The male cuttlefish who reach the female disguised as a female suggest a view of knowledge and evolution which Paul Valéry might have enjoyed.

The female gives preference to his sperm pack (she has her choice of a few she has accepted.)

First, view his female camouflage as a mental representation of his which she perceives.

Second, consider that this camouflage first arose as an aspect of signalling among cuttlefish.

Third, consider that the hominid scientist views his display as a mechanism and her opting for his sperm pack as a response in which, once again, no perception and communication occurred at all.

Fourth: transpose to any long-standing debates about sense-data and physical objects or the existence of other minds and entertain the notion of theists that this skeptical trend has contributed to a moral relativism which reduces our prospects as a species.