In his 1991 book Consciousness Explained, the cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett describes the juvenile sea squirt, which wanders through the sea looking for a “suitable rock or hunk of coral to … make its home for life”. On finding one, the sea squirt no longer needs its brain and eats it. I know some people who behave like this, and I don’t have to swim too far to find them.
Licensed today: The Bay Horse pub in Masham, North Yorkshire…
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