# What creature is this?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creature-is-this/854789>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 31, 2020, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creature-is-this/854789 "2020-05-31T14:09:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creature-is-this/854789/21 "2020-06-03T14:32:27Z")

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> [@Xema](#):
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> Did they not resent this?

Thank you, Dr. Maturin.

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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creature-is-this/854789/22 "2020-06-03T15:12:06Z")

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> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#):
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> So, how do we know that we’re not just a Nudibranch brain in a beaker being electronically stimulated to think we’re humans in a normal existence?

Quite simply, there _is no spoon_.

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**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\
**Post date:** [June 3, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creature-is-this/854789/23 "2020-06-03T15:40:18Z")

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> [@kayaker](#):
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> Quite simply, there _is no spoon_.

Thank you, I am greatly relieved.

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**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creature-is-this/854789/24 "2020-06-08T04:19:32Z")

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> [@kayaker](#):
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> Actually, they were beyond lobotomized, their “brains” were actually removed. A surgical blade was used to decapitate the animal and the body discarded. Under a dissecting microscope the head was pinned to agar in a dish. The prep was then soaked in a protease solution. Following a rinse with seawater, only the brain and photoreceptors remained.

Jesus, can you imagine some horror movie where aliens did that to humans?

_shudder_

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**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2020, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-creature-is-this/854789/25 "2020-06-08T15:39:01Z")

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Never heard of these critters before. Now I kinda wish I hadn’t.

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