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7493733 No.7493733 [Reply] [Original]

Do fruit flies have any kind of awareness of their environmental surroundings? Do you have a theory about what they think about? Do they even have any kind of long term memory?

>> No.7493771

You couldn't have just googled this?

>> No.7493782

>>7493733
i believe that they are literally humans in a fly body

>> No.7493786

>>7493733
No they are dumb as shit

Everything they do is a result purely of instinct. They have no fucking cognitive process they are flies.

>> No.7493804

>>7493786
But they have to have some sort of decision-making?

>> No.7493812

>>7493804
They are like mini-robots. Relying on their instincts (like robots on their software) to do everything.

>> No.7493827

>>7493804
They are probably hard wired with a few basic routines. Eating, shitting, mating, and avoid being killed.

>> No.7493855

I wonder how their death avoidance works. They'll land on you and disregard you waving around to shake them off, but a hand preparing to strike from two feet a way gets them to move, though only for them to immediately land in the same place.

Why are they such annoying cunts?

>> No.7493859

>>7493786
Are you brain-impaired or you are stupid from the time your mother gave birth to you? It has been proved that Fruit Flies have cognitive and social behavors only seen on multi-developed animals. Reseach suggests that they have synaptic habilities with the larvae part of their brains, giving them unique habilities that actually are proven by a couple of prestigious Colleges.

>they are dumb as shit

MFW, the double-slit experiment, in which a fruit fly is trapped in a container with two exits, and they color both exits on different colors. One red and one blue. In the red one, they recieve an electric shock. On the blue one, they are rewarded with fruit. They will remember the color and they will avoid color red, just because this experiment. This proves that flies are actually pretty damn smart.

>> No.7493863

>>7493859
>ESL tard
>calling others stupid

>> No.7493869
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7493869

>>7493859
>maximum triggered

>> No.7493889

>>7493863
>greentexting on Facebook
>being this new

>> No.7493897

>>7493855
They are probably the most annoying creatures you can find. Ants are fascinating due to their high intelligence for a species of insect, wasps are complete bastards. But flies are just...fucking annoying.

>> No.7493898

>>7493859
No it only proves they are easily manipulable. If they were any "smart" they would think

>Aha, someone is trying to control my behaviour. Let's fuck around with them for a bit.

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7493909

>>7493898

>> No.7493924

>>7493733
The question: do flies have thoughts the way that humans do? Is most likely no. They probably don't have very good long-term memory either, at least from any tests that I know of. I do believe they have some short-term memory though, along the lines of what >>7493859 suggested.

But to answer whether or not they can sense or are aware of their surroundings, they absolutely are. They are complex animals that experience the world using a variety of senses, including smell, sight, and touch.

Of course this doesn't make them useless, they have revealed a great deal to us about genetics by being a good model organism for a variety of studies.

>> No.7493931

>>7493733
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166223604003303
Enjoy