Entertaining, readable, and informative as always.

Funny that their mouth doubles as an anus!

It's interesting how we often use behavior to extrapolate to the presence of consciousness, but in this case we can't cos the substratum for consciousness is not there. But then does a proto-brain signify consciousness when the behavior isn't much more complex than a jelly's? Like I see roaches writhing in seeming pain when I spray them, and I feel kinda bad, cos it looks like they're feeling subjective pain. But who the hell knows.