Funny thing when reading that is as a human I read „crafted nervous system twice” like it would be done over a week or two.
replyWe fail to imagine how much time takes to „craft a nervous system”.
Super scary how small are we in big scheme of things.
https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/senses/eye/
replyat one point I learned that it would only take a few hundred thousand years to evolve an eye, and time felt much deeper.
I think the fact that the sentence says we share the nervous system with jellyfish gives a good indication of that.
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