Seas of Polinices | Speculative Biology
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- Опубликовано: 25 июл 2024
- Imagine a world of aquatic organisms. What species might emerge? A breakdown of J. J. Aniorte’s excellent speculative biology project ‘Polinices.’
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At this very moment, in the depths of Earth’s oceans, alien lifeforms are waiting. Not alien in the sense they come from another planet, but alien in the sense that they’re so different from what we think of as life, they seem not of this Earth. If our oceans harbor organisms that appear extraterrestrial, imagine what we’d find in a literal alien sea?
Polinices is a speculative biology project by the brilliant artist and worldbuilder J. J. Aniorte, which explores life on a planet ruled by aquatic organisms. The infinite forms of this tropical paradise are among the most creative I’ve ever featured on this channel - pushing the boundaries of life as we know it.
There’s a tremendous amount to discover. So, let’s dive in to these teeming waters, and see what awaits us upon planet Polinices.
0:00 Seas of Polinices
1:01 Meet the Stegocaudate
2:09 Cycles of Life
4:00 Onirocolia
4:45 Amphinatans
5:35 Sponge Eaters
6:23 Greatest Reef
7:12 Hive Drones
7:55 Signal Repeaters
8:52 Chain Fish
9:57 Biological Internet
10:44 Dipterognathe
11:55 Sea Belt
12:33 Sea Wheel
13:20 Intertidal Hunter
14:24 The Last Giant
15:28 Outro
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"Biological internet" has to be the most interesting concept here by far, it's easy to see the potential for a very alien intelligence to emerge either in individual hives, groups of hives, or even within the infoscape itself.
Considering every organism in Polinices forms from a network of smaller multicellular organisms and are treated as a colony, one could imagine sapient lifeforms using a term similar to "family" to refer to a specific colony. It's not unheard of in fiction either, since there are swarms that tend to act as one while using the Hive Mind trope as a means of identifying themselves.
(Also, nice to see a fellow Numenoko enjoyer in the comments section)
First thing to pop up in my mind at the term 'biological internet' was the forest in the movie Avatar.
@@Karoku2100 berigoo!
@@P10ter_25 yes that but not tacked on and boring
We have it on earth the mushroom mycelium bio chemichal networm
It’s always stumped me how an underwater civilization would get very far without things like fire and electricity.
(real world) electric fish actually inspired the (artificial) voltaic cell in our society. the (real world) battery was partly an attempt to replicate that biological battery (i think in 'torpedo fish'?) (as well as the result of physics/chemistry unrelated to the fish thing) guess they would be able to do some things with electricity if they use proper insulation. strangely fire would be more advanced technology though, maybe they could stick crucibles on sticks/cables and lower them into (underwater) volcanoes to melt metals?
the ancient romans used the torpedo fish as pain (arthritis?) relief, they'd put their feet in a bowl of water (with the fish in it) and get zapped. i think 'torpedo' comes from some word that means 'numbing' or something, related to the effects of that practice
given that the nature of fire as a property of almost all objects to glow in some wavelength of light corresponding to temprature (in this case hot gas) has to do with fundamental laws of physics, it seems inevitable that fire/plasma would be theorised and then created even if fire wouldn't be encountered by non scientists of that world from chance alone.
(henry cavendish made an artificial electric ray fish in 1775, to demonstrate that the fish used electricity to sting not as some thought some sort of venomous sting) (ok the fish thing wasn't the direct inspiration, but it played a role, which would've been bigger in a speculative under sea civilisation)
would fire (or something like it) even be as necessary for progression underwater as it is in the surface?
@@astrowyrm6871 depends on when an acqautic species starts to colonize land or if it has some way to generate light and no need too cook food.
@@astrowyrm6871 Fire was big since it let us cook food, greatly increasing the nutrient intake of whatever we ate. See how chimps and other apes have those huge mouths and large guts? They need stronger jaws to chew tough, raw food and bigger guts to effectively digest. With fire, we can simply cook it and get the nutrients at a lower cost. This lets us divert energy from eating to brain power. Almost all the food you eat powers your brain. Hence, first big step towards developing higher brain function.
One theory I have heard for a possible underwater technological civ was based around something they called an uncup which was basically a cup they use to pull down air and then developed from there
I love how J. J. Aniorte isn't afraid to go beyond something that exists on Earth and actually explore unique and truly alien concepts that possibly has never been thought to be possible.
Huh? That's just good principles for speculative xenobiology. Of course it shouldn't be too close to earth-life.
@@neo-filthyfrank1347 Many speculative biologists don't actually go that far.
@@powerofanime1 yes they do
@@powerofanime1 It should be considered that there is a lot of speculative biology based on future or potential past Earth's too, which should logically stick to more Earth-like things
@@The_WhitePencil That is very true! The Future is Wild is a core memory for me.
I'm convinced J. J. Aniorte’s just went to another planet, and all of this is his real accounts. This stuff is WILD but so believable!
Nah dude, he actually trascended and became a deity, then made an entire planet with concepts 99% of us havent even thought of, and then in his free time, showed us all the things he created in that planet with the pretense that "It's all speculative biology and totally not real, *wink* *wink* "
Wow! Didn't know you'd be here. I'm a big fan of your work.
@@WAVE0025 don't worry dude it's just speculative biology not a planet I made *cough cough*
if polinices was a real planet, i'd visit it
Hmm, verified?
I love how there’s a ‘world of birds’(Serina), a ‘world of amphibians’ (amphiterra), now a ‘world of fish’ (this).
What next? Earth: world of mammals?
@@Raptorozaur you mean those weird little rat things? I can't imagine they could differentiate much
@david Oman yea they are disgusting. Who the fuck would what to make a world after them?
World of ants
@@iamdigory and from who evolve whales, horses, monkeys, and other?
These "fish" look borderline eldritch... Good designs and good job to the artist :)
It’s almost like they’re A.I. generated, they look familiar at fist, but the more you look at them, the weirder they get.
Some real deep sea animals look eldritch
I save most of Curious Archives videos in a big playlist for all my Delta Green/Call of C'thullu/Lovecraftian/Eldritch stuff. Imagine playing a Sci-fi Tabletop RPG like Traveller and getting weird radio signals from this uninhabited ocean planet your passing by abd when you go down to check it out, it turns out the ocean is ruled by a supercolony of Sentient omnivorous coral and later figuring out the coral sent the signal as a lure.
@@andrewdiaz3529 that's pretty dope
I have long thought about a speculative organism that uses radio waves to communicate, I'm glad I've finally found a project that has a similar idea.
You should stop being inactive and actually do it then instead of vicariously living through other people's creations
@@neo-filthyfrank1347 Christ mate, projecting much. Leave people alone and go about your life
@@britisharmedforcesmilsim3015 It takes a special kind of pathetic person to cry about someone saying something that's true and that would better someone.
"Wahh how dare you point out my obvious flaws, how dare you tell me to stop being an inactive worm"
Ive had the same idea for a game concept. Though the aliens that communicate through radio are simply slaves to a different alien race, their origins are the first planet to be colonized by a viral alien race. Who were incredibly confused because they were unable to translate aliens who dont vocalize, and had no idea they were even intelligent.
Yeah ik how you feel. A lot of things in there like wheel-organisms and things with 2 viable front ends are things I've been thinking about a lot and haven't done because i was worried it'd be unreasonable but honestly I'm considering just doing them even if they seem wack and try to make them reasonable. A lot of things like this comes down to execution, it seems.
Make your radio-communicators, be inspired and make some new stuff to be in the world, you can do it.
Aquatic beehives? Yes. Such a cool idea for convergent evolution.
Underwater environments always freak me out but also always sound so cool to me. Great vid man
Same, I don't know why I'm scared to look at images of sea creatures without someone else watching with me or someone documenting it
I think the fear of sea creatures is a form of thalassophobia
Given the supercontinent, very rare land organisms, and shallow seas full of true weirdos, this world feels like it’s set some time between the Cambrian and Silurian. On the one hand I would love to see this continue to evolve through time, but on the other I admire the restraint needed to keep life there! It’s such a cool time period and I feel like spec ev doesn’t explore it enough
When I started seeing the images, I thought "ugh, it's just being strange for the sake of being strange!" but by the end I was totally convinced that this could be a real alien ecology. This feels startlingly plausible if the idea is that this planet's Cambrian Explosion equivalent resulted in siphonophores becoming the dominant biological mode.
Usually you can tell when something is strange just for the heck of it because they usually just rip the body parts off other animals and put them on something they don't belong to. Projects where they think it through usually create entirely new body parts for their lifeforms, which just ends up making them seem strange as a result. So basically if you see a snake with buck teeth and squid tentacles it's probably just trying to be weird, but a snake with body parts you can't quite identify was probably made with real intent behind it.
This one is super interesting. When creature have arbitrary complexity I often think it’s silly but because the whole ecosystem functions the way it does, it makes sense. Thanks for another great video.
Bruh, *we* are arbitrary complexity
I wonder what it would be like if some crossover-like event took place with all these speculative worlds. Perhaps aliens begin hand-picking very specific animals from all sorts of planets and canons, like the axe heads of Serina, the flyers from All Tomorrows, the arrow tonge from Expedition, the dipterognathe from Polinices, and many more, then bring them to a single planet with no animal life, all to fill ecological niches that have been left vacant by, maybe, some planet wide disease, and this introduction of various life forms was done as a last ditch effort to prevent total ecological collapse. I'd like to see what kind of evolution would take place in this type of world.
Xen from half life kinda has a similar premise, tons of aliens all from different dimensions all bunched together in this melting pot of a dimension.
it almost makes me cry to see you share so much speculative biology with us lol. speculative evolution is one of my favorite things ever and before this channel I had difficulty finding projects to read/see
By far one of the most ‘alien’ environments you’ve showcased
As we see on earth with convergent evolution, alien life that lives in water will likely develop a 'fish' shape, because that is the optimal shape to move through water, which would be the same environment regardless of which planet it's on.
Exactly, even the most surreal organisms on the video are still optimized for swimming, walking or standing still
I feel that convergence makes life even more incredible. No matter how many times life iterates through different niches, or how many alien worlds spawn completely novel creatures, their shapes alone will eventually correlate to each others role in their ecosystem. (Perhaps even more existentially, like the radio communicating aliens in their ocean, life in other worlds might arise to fill niches only humans have created, like technologies. Seeing aliens that have optimized what we would consider technology into streamlined organs, like a fish shaped router)
Hmm.... But there are a ton of non-fish shaped swimmers.... And I think gravity and whatever chemical elements in the environment would definitely affect shape and mode of motility....
@@retard_activated which non fish-shapped swimmers are as efficient and versatile as fish-shapped ones?
@@italucenaz Firstly, you have to define "efficiency". All successful swimmers are efficient if they have managed to not go extinct.
And primarily I wanted to address that the OP stated water would be the same environment regardless of the planet it's on, and that's very untrue. The kind of water, the chemical elements, gravitational strength of said planet, even temperature and external weather has a lot of influence... etc. etc. Just look at the vastly different "kinds" we have here on Earth. There are bodies in of water in which you will struggle to float, and there are bodies of water in which you will struggle to sink. There's just too many variables for a blanket statement like that to stand alone.
I always forget how colorful the reef can be, and seeing an alien reef is really stunning.
Have you ever come across any speculative bios detailing life on a gas giant? If you have, could you please do a video on it?
He recently posted one that partly covers this topic: Life in the Cluster, I think it was called. Thanks for that.
I've wondered about the concept of radio being used for hive communication. I think it would be a very quick way for a species to gain sapience, given the vast advantage it gives to information processing.
Would love to see a colony so successful it’s become the only giant colony of its species. It collects food; it deposits eggs; then it returns and adds it’s own offspring to itself. A complete cycle
reminds me of the super organism we have on earth which is just a large colony of honey mushrooms which propagate by spreading spores which in turn form what is essentially a "clone" but not really, but due to the similarities in genetics it is able to grow to incredible sizes by fusing these separate colonies into one.
It would be interesting for alien scientists to do a long term study on some of these hive sponge colonies and see how a single colony changes over thousands of years, in behavior, genetics, and how it effects its environment.
There's actually an earth cryptid called the black carpet that's basically that.
Again, CA you've introduced me to uet another amazing speculative art project that piques my creativity to no end! Great video man! And thank you for covering more and more of these spectacular ideas!
Gay
@@EDL_433 no u
12:17
Sea Belt puts a smile on my face. It reminds me of RNA. The drones being mRNA,the food particles being tRNA and the main sponge being rRNA (ribosome). Fascinating!
RNA is so fascinating, it can form structures that perform functions similar to proteins despite being nucleic acids rather than peptides, due to this nature and its ability to fold into an infinite variety of shapes much like proteins, RNA based life may have existed first leading to the creation of proteins and then the more information stable DNA.
I love the sea belts as well and the way the drones can link up to other queens makes for a beautiful sight, i would love to see a blender animation one day as something to stare at for hours.
This is one of the most creative spec evo projects I’ve heard of
I love how you introduce us to such different projects that are all creative in their own ways. The other that comes to mind is serina, and how unique its story of the evolution of sentience is.
Very interesting, it's always fun to see underwater worlds since the ocean can be a very fascinating place. Great video, love the content!
I find it kind of funny how whenever I see one of your videos come out I must stop what I'm doing and watch it through a few times then continue whatever I was doing before. Love the content!
Here one minute after it went live! You are one of the most underrated channels. I'm autistic and my one special interest encapsulates speculative biology/zoology/fauna, and plausible aliens (and constructed lanuage but there's already so many channels for that), and your content brings it all to me in a detailed but still easily digestible way with a soothing voice. What more could I ask for but keep making awesome content!
Same!!!
Same too
You and I both! :D
My man
I'm autistic too, and I'm writing a speculative fiction series about aquatic aliens. In time, I hope to make my world as amazing as the one this channel talked about ^^
Currently, I know the most about the Aurish. They're amphibious, venomous, nap multiple times a day, and scare off predators with a giant deimatic display. They can extend fins on their back called shula to giant sizes, and the shula are patterned with eyes to give the appearance of many larger organisms. Also, they're sentient and quite cat like in some of their instincts and behaviour. (Hissing to show displeasure, purring when happy, and they really like head pats.)
I love that the puns. This time you said, “let’s dive in” and on the frog video you said, “let’s hop into it” or something similar.
The upload schedule recently has been amazing, it's always great to see a new video from you. Don't work yourself too hard though!
What a fascinating planet!! Amphinatans being able to swim side to side like a crab on land is such an inspired design!! Though overall the Sea Belt is my absolute favorite!!! I can imagine it in motion so well, what a charming creature! Thank you for showcasing them!
this Chain Fish, it reminds me a lot of Pokémon Exeggcute (1st gen) and Falinks (8th gen). because they are divided but always remain together, like this "fish"
Its crazy how unique this planet is. its truly amazing, I really want to explore the ocean of Polinices an see all the amazing creatures
Chain fish are my absolute favorites. Got to love the inclusion of RF frequencies as not only a method of communication, but straight up as a method of connection between the same creature.
I like to think chain fish have a huge problem with phishing attacks. As in, another chain fish deceptively sending the same radio waves and striaght up just stealing part of someone’s body
@@goodluckgorsky3413 Thats a very cool concept. A parasitic colonial creature. Its almost like a xenomorph in a sense, stealing other organs for its own use.
There could also be chain fish who tricks a segment and takes its place. Then taking nutrients from the lead chain fish, sort of like a tapeworm in a sense. Except if the tapeworm ate your legs and replaced them. Or like that tongue eating isopod.
An extreme version of this could be a very powerful RF engaging fish that would command fish into its mouth or weapons. Potentially feeding on airborne targets out of the water, who stand no chance of stopping a target they cant even see.
@@pauldeddens5349
The concept could be extrapolated to other forms of inter-organism relations as well. For instance, a species of chain fish that exchanges zooids as part of its mating. Or heck, one that just does it for all manner of social reasons. "Nice kidneys, bro. Wanna trade?"
I'm not sure the premise of chain fish holds up, to be honest. I mean, it's one thing to have a colonial organism where one of its members digests the food and then shares the nutrients with its physically-connected partners, but where's the practical benefit in having multiple *separated* bodies? Each section of a chain fish would need its own set of organs for respiration, digestion, excretion, circulation, internal regulation, and so forth; you can't eat or breathe or pee for your buddies if the only connection between you is a radio broadcast. So what does a chain fish gain from its lifestyle, that's worth the energetic expense of making multiple copies of vital organ systems for its components? If you have the energy and resources available to make a bunch of copies of yourself, why not use them to, y'know, *breed* instead? As in, make offspring? Like, the one thing Nature demands of any organism? Individuals operating in a coordinated or even colonial group can be workable, but having and needing a bunch of redundant body-copies doesn't seem like a viable adaptive strategy.
@@sharondornhoff7563
Why have digestive organs when a specific section digests food for you and gives energy directly to you?
Its basically a complex organism that has convergently evolved into a colonial organism with RF frequencies to send nervous signals without the need of a physical connection.
Why would every section need duplicate organs? The head segment needs air and blood circulation, theres no reason the excess segments couldnt simply use diffusion or simple pumps rather than lungs and hearts.
And it improves movement and survivability MASSIVELY. Like how a lizard can drop its tail to avoid predation, this single animal can scatter, or lose a single segment to protect the whole. And because each segment is self sufficient to a degree, they can all work just as effectively with a missing segment, whereas an animal with a missing limb is not only less efficient at mobility, the dead weight hinders it further.
And finally, the most important part of speculative evolution. Its fun and creativity over actual practicality. Why does a carnivorous giant suddenly decide bamboo should be its primary source of nutrition? Nature doesnt make sense, and nitpicking speculative evolution defeats the creative fun of speculatively engineering creatures to fit arbitrary niches we decide. Or thinking of how a fish organism could possibly use RF frequencies to communicate with itself and become highly adapted for that lifestyle.
This is currently my favourite channel on youtube, just never disappoints.
Hell yeah! This is hands down my favourite spec evo project
Considering how recent this project is, I'm SO glad you're giving it a chance mate and some MUUUUUUUUCH needed exposure!
I love how every single creature is a colonial creature. It sounds crazy but the same way every land mammal on earth developed the same reproductive system why shouldn’t every single creature on this planet be of the same class? I love this concept
thats actually why it didnt work for me, i liked it but i expected them to be more alien and they werent described properly the drawings made them look weird
The Platypus would like to know your location.
I just thought that colonial animals outcompeted or never had any pressure to individualize which is really intresting to think about what caused that
Some snakes and lizards give live birth, and some birds produce a special liquid we call a type of milk. Nature finds patterns, but there are a lot of crossovers!
Great job man, love your content 👍
Appreciate it, thanks for watching!
Same
The colonial organisms remind me of the mitochondrial symbiosis theory I've recently learned about. I don't know much about it and I'm still looking into it but so far it seems pretty cool.
I'm glad speculative zoology has gotten more popular. I wanna see animated, docu- series' on these concepts
Who wouldn't want to explore a world as unique as this? Mind blown.
Wow, It had been a while since I was so awestruck by a project. THIS IS AMAZING. As a mathematician It intrigues me what kind of encriptions life might come up with. It would be fascinating to study
The radio communication alone would take decades to study properly, and even then it would be hard to truly understand. Even just how they produce and receive the signals alone would be a massive breakthrough, never mind how the information in encoded and decoded!
@@justadude5868 its interesting i think it would be akin to how we are trying to decode echolocation communication of animals like dolphins and whales. or how we are studying chemical communication between plants and bugs.
i imagine if such life forms did exist it would provide alot of avenues of new biomimicry to be approached
Wow this is awesome you could have an entire game based off of this unlike Subnautica but different
Please continue making these videos, your enthusiasm is incredible!
honestly i wanna know how intelligent life analogous to our own would form underwater. it's definitely an interesting idea to explore :0
would love to see an aquarium with these little alien critters
I love how you keep the subtitles on. English is my second language and it really helps to understand your video.
Your videos are so calming love the vids can't wait to watch another
I think we need a name for this subgenre of speculative zoology. Speculative adaptive radiation?
I love how the creatures are clearly identifiable as living things analogous to those on Earth, but still very alien-looking.
I have thought about this so much and this is amazing
I find great pleasure in watching your videos. Excellent work.
Thank you very much!
Amazing video and such cool art!
I am really loving the speculative biology videos (Serina has been my favorite). thank you for making these incredible videos and bringing these projects to my attention!
Such a bizarre planet with evolutionary splendours
At this moment - Polinices is truly my favorite world.
This is the most unique biology I've seen in a wile.
I feel like the name of this planet fits it really well. In my opinion, the word Polinices SCREAMS ocean! It’s amazing!
Genuinely the best speculative fiction I've ever heard.
I find many spec bio's very interesting, love your vids!
I saw this pop up in my recommended and immediately shouted "YES"
I really enjoy the presentation of your videos! Your voice, script, and background music is perfect! I fell in love with your channel after watching (and re-watching) your Subnautica biology series. Can't wait for your next video!
I do wonder what kind of information does a sedentary sea sponge know that's so important that it has to literally encrypt to make sure it doesn't fall into the wrong (nonexistent) hands
This is probably the most creative one I've ever seen
Hell yeah, new Curious Archive video!
It's just I can't even explain the excitement when you release a video and the imaginative content you make its literally awesome
Just recently found this channel and I'm just binging all the speculative biology videos one by one. This is awesome!
One of my favorite projects covered so far!
As a genetic biologist myself, the idea of a pseudo-rotationally symmetric animal is mind-blowingly creative
Its badass
Good video, Love your content it captivates me more than any other content creator on this site!
A lot of people in the comments are justified in gushing how cool the idea of biological radio frequency communication is. But all I can think about is just how challenging that would make for humans to explore that planet. Because pretty much every single form of electronic communication that we have could be potentially extremely and catastrophically disruptive to local ecosystem every time we use it.
It's possible to get around it, but we would have to get creative really quickly to minimize the damage.
This is inspiring me. I am going to incorporate more speculative designs in my world. Very good video about a pretty good world
This is pretty cool ngl
I love your content!
You should eventually cover the Rhinogrades!
I love these videos I always find myself watching them before bed given how relaxing they are and interesting the creativity behind each different episode is
Another banger as usual, I love these speculative worlds.
Wow! Another lovely edition to the archive!
Hey curious archive, I love your videos, but I wanted to know if you covered yet an speculative rogue planet biology. I think it would be cool to see an ecosistem si different to ours
Will there be a part 2? Since this was the most interesting planet so far
Charlie... CHARLIE! WE GOT A SIGNAL! ... ... ... Nevermind it's just a fish.
I love this channel SO much ❤
Great video as always.
I feel like you could do a really good Chills impression
Fascinating documentary
YES!!
Wow amazing
12:09 anyone else think of Piemation’s: “Suction Cup Man” at this point in time
I know this video is over a year old, but I find it fascinating to see a form of life imagined without bilateral symmetry, without radial symmetry, and without non symmetry. When you showed the image of the sponge eaters, they have two bilateral “heads” that are structurally the same. The two “heads” have another line of symmetry akin to bilateral symmetry where the two bilateral “heads” mirror. This concept is so intriguing because they use one organ for propulsion, eating, I assume waste, and I assume near would be reproduction. I wonder, due to its symmetry, if it would have two means of procreation or if it would have one near the center of the two symmetry lines. The thing that is interesting is that this is an adaptation of radial symmetry using solely bilateral symmetry. Some organisms do have radial and bilateral, but not bilateral and bilateral. For my understanding, on Earth, our organisms found it not advantageous to have repetition of segments to that extent, however, repetition is very common. Such as centipedes and other segmented organisms. I’d say that is the closest to that form of symmetry because you could say within the segments, there are multiple lines of bilateral symmetry along one line of bilateral symmetry. However, to mirror and have a central zone where the cells develop without radial symmetry but still having symmetry is very interesting. Good job to the world builder, it’s rare to see such true alien concepts and falling into our biases of Earth life.
Yeees more content about projects I already know and can't get enough of
Quite an interesting world even for the naturally weird subject of speculative biology. Also, the plural of genus is genera.
this is very cool! i'd like to see Nijin-Konai covered on this channel, it's one of my favourite spec evo projects 👀
I love this series so much
Maybe the sponges could evolve to proces so much information from the drones that they became sapient (as a colective mind or as individuals), using theyre drones as eyes and hands to force the surrounding life forms into evolving in analogies of our own technology by artificial selection (basicly becoming a mix betwen all tomorrows acuatics and the tree like aliens from humanity lost).
Sorry, english is not my first language.
Sapient sesile organisms have always been on my mind, I've always wondered how it could be done but right here in this particular speculative biology it may just be possible.
Sounds vaguely similar to the aliens from Fantastic planet. Where humans interact with giant bipedal creatures who seemingly dont eat or drink, because they get their energy from what appears to be astral projection. (Not very much a scientific story, but a very nice artsy story)
@@themushroominside6540 Sapience in immovable creatures is very fascinating. Especially if those conditions arise outside of atmospheres. What happens to a space-bound sponge-like creature who can think? If it has some form of limbs, or "wireless" communication methods between other parts of itself, it could over time potentially assemble itself a spaceship. It would make for a very fascinating creature.
There’s an alien in “humanity lost” called the Gord with the exact same premise, and I absolutely love it.
and the author of this spec evo just followed me back on twitter, i see this as an absolute win.
The most interesting episode yet
Now we need a planet of insects
The inter-tidal hunter was my favorite. How awesomely terrifying!
Watching videos of speculative biology, a question arises for me if all species of humans, primates and apes had never existed, would the rest of highly intelligent animals such as horns and dolphins have developed civilizations?
I don't think so, since humans are not the direct cause of their lack of civilizations. Maybe in the far future they would evolve into societies in a world where humans are not arround to ruin the world with contamination and stuff, but there is no way that any animal would have evolved a civilization by this year.
@@guillermorolandoferradaven9 I said that in a scenario where humans, primates and apes would have NEVER existed, it is not possible now. Obviously there is no other civilization advanced by another animal because of humans
I don't think sophontism is a niche, though if they're competitive and egocentric like us they might wipe out others like them.
I think that even with humans and primates, apes etc other animal groups could develop sophoncy. It all comes down to conditions.
Also, many animals are already what some define as sapient: Using tools, having languages, cultures, teach eachother etc.
I think that given enough time however that things like crows, octopus, and others like african honey badgers or raccoons might develop cultures with continued tool use and whatnot. (Though with octopus they'd have to develop a culture first, which is hard and strange when you have no parents to raise you).
Though it's hard to be certain what'd happen. I don't think sophoncy is all that rare or impossible though, i just think we're lucky (being on land where we can make fire, being naturally social creatures, having good hands, having the kind of language concepts we do)
"A world where aquatic life are the dominant organisms" *subnautica flashbacks intensify*
This is good content,
Keep it up!
Always looking forward to new videos.
Gosh
Love your content
YEEESSSS!!!!
AQUATIC ALIENS ARE MY FAVORITE