Tuesday, March 16, 2010

The Dolphin and the Cuttlefish

The bottle-nose dolphin has dived and is searching about the ocean floor where it last dined on a cuttlefish.

Under its very snout is a swaying set of orange fronds, lightly speckled (a cuttlefish in camouflage.)

Thesis: the skin layers of the camouflaging cuttlefish constitute a mental representation.  Rationale:  cuttlefish moves over an area, perceives its dominant patterns and shapes and constructs its best representation of those patterns and shapes not in a higher neural level but in its outer skin ayers.  No homunculus is required: any dolphin or other predator will do.

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