The Starfish and the Spider

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Two out of three weeks - we are talking about spiders.

A spider

8 legs, a body, 8 eyes - creepy - powerful… scaryShow pics - If you pull off the leg of a spider - it may survive. If you poke out an eye - it may still live - If you cut off its head - it dies.

A Starfish

5 legs - their core connection at the central point, sensory eyes at the end of each leg, no brain! No central system that controls everything.In fact, like the Apache Nant’ an - when one leg moves - somehow the other legs decide to follow but are not compelled to follow. If a leg doesn’t agree then it holds back and they figure out the next movement together or they don’t move. Here is the amazing thing - part of their defense mechanism is to detach a leg if attacked.they can regenerate that leg.they can re-grow their whole self from the detached legThey have a de-centralized nervous and communication system.

Compare -

When you cut of the head of a spider: it dieswhen you take off the leg of a spider: it might die or get by but it will not ever be whole againWhen you take off a part of a starfish - it will regenerate the missing part or the eremoved part will become a new starfish.