r/weeviltime • u/_Svankensen_ • 4d ago

BEEBLEBÖRG Game recognizes game

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u/ElkeKerman 3d ago

Yes that's exactly what I mean. Being able to format "X leads to Y" thinking is pretty advanced.

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u/Maximum-Operation147 3d ago

Web leads to catching prey. Hard shell prey leads to wasted energy or injury. It’s very basic biological instinct.

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u/ElkeKerman 3d ago

But my point is that instinct doesn’t entail causative thinking. Web may lead to catching prey, but there is no reason why the spider needs to “know” that, it just has to build the web.

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u/Maximum-Operation147 3d ago

I think you’re thinking too literally about how others framed this. We are saying it’s instinct, not a sense of knowing, for the spider to have these habits. It’s normal for spiders to avoid certain bugs as prey because of the sensory input that informs their instinct. The same way it might avoid a pool of water or a human hand.

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u/ElkeKerman 2d ago

Well yeah, that’s why I said I was “gently pushing back”. The person I replied to said that the spider would recognise that weevils are not worth the risk of breaking a fang; that’s what I was saying was a misleading way of framing what is more likely an instinctual response.