Maybe they can't see, at least as we do? We have a complex brain to assimilate and make sense of our sensory inputs and 'see' a continuum. They don't have this capability and just react instinctively to sensory inputs in a knee jerk manner. What they see is probably akin to a scratched 1920's movie seen through broken glasses.
@@alphalunamare That’s a far fetched assumption, to think they don’t see good. They are a very successful species and it’s most likely due to their incredible eyes. But, ye, it would be impossible for us to know exactly how they perceive what they are seeing. At least with todays technology.
@@alphalunamaretheir color receptors at least work differently, as they need a specific color receptor for purple instead of their brain going “red light plus blue light equals purple light.”
@Sean Kessens Partially true. The philosophy of color for example has been written about for centuries, but some experiments have shown that it's likely that what you perceive as "red" is exactly the same as what I perceive it to be. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy_of_color Similarly, animals that have similar brain structure to us likely see the world in similar ways to us. Though the mantis shrimp is so far removed that it becomes difficult to speculate at all about what its like to be a mantis shrimp. The age of the universe/earth is a separate topic and there is plenty of geological and astronomical evidence that suggests those numbers. Etc radiocarbon dating and calculating the expansion rate of distant galaxies. In the end one would have to define what "impossible to know" means. How much evidence and what type of evidence is required to "know" something?
The black dot is the back of their retina. Its is like if you're holding a bundle of straws on a black surface. If you look down at them you only see through the center straw but not the others.
Imagine this shrimp is the size of torpedo, no submarine can withstand the punch, if it grows to the size of aircraft carrier, it’s intergalactic warship
Now they just need to develop sentience and go on land as well as grow the ability to have manual decterity. After that, we as a species should start running
"Evolution took care of that" That's like saying something 10 times better than a Rolls Royce engine was just found in the wild for no reason and was made by no one
Thats just it. Nobody know why they function the way they do. No scientist can ever know why animals behave they do. It's all speculation and hypothesis. Unless you are the actual animal than only that way you will know how you truly function.
@Parker Kelly If you don't like evolution, then what is your explanation for homo erectus to current homo sapiens, wouldn't the change in skeleton structure between the two be a sign of evolution?
