I'd like to say: totally called it
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To paraphrase: SPIDERS THINK WITH THEIR WEBS.
From this fascinating review in @animalcog link.springer.com/article/10.100
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vegetarian tree colony spiders that still weave webs because they serve as memory, ears and calculators now
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In this broader sense of cognition, humans 'think' with their computer programs. Interesting idea.
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entering another spider's web as taking a stroll through its mind, judging character by the web's form, spiders talking with the wind
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There's a more literal metaphor of this in ghost in the shell - and why i'm following spider scientists.