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Anonymous Fri 19 Mar 23:21:00 2021 No.12856772 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>12857436 >>12857452 >>12857746 >>12857877

>lay down absolutely defenseless for one third of a day while having subconscious visual auditory hallucinations
What evolutionary pressure would have lead animals to do this?

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Anonymous Fri 19 Mar 2021 23:24:26 No.12856786 Report

Quoted By: >>12857467

Before electricity was invented you couldn't fucking see at night so probably so you don't wander around and fall of a cliff by accident.

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Anonymous Sat 20 Mar 2021 02:27:22 No.12857436 Report

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>>12856772
Your brain has to be repaired. A lot of animals that are prevented from sleeping will die given enough time.

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Anonymous Sat 20 Mar 2021 02:30:54 No.12857452 Report

Quoted By: >>12857458

>>12856772
>while having subconscious visual auditory hallucinations
A current theory is this is to conserve the auditory cortex for vision to prevent neuroplasticity from taking over during darkness.

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Anonymous Sat 20 Mar 2021 02:32:23 No.12857458 Report

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>>12857452
>auditory cortex
visual cortex

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Anonymous Sat 20 Mar 2021 02:34:46 No.12857467 Report

Quoted By: >>12857484

>>12856786
That's retarded cats have great night vision and sleep 90% of the day

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Anonymous Sat 20 Mar 2021 02:41:11 No.12857484 Report

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>>12857467
Cuz evolution isn’t real

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Anonymous Sat 20 Mar 2021 04:14:05 No.12857746 Report

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>>12856772
The state of mere eistence is extremely strenuous upon the body. You're lucky you can even walk. Or blink. Or breathe.

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Anonymous Sat 20 Mar 2021 05:11:56 No.12857877 Report

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>>12856772
makes little sense outside of evolving to be a group organism to some degree. being an alien robot monkey kind of stinks.

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