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[deleted] t1_jbgw49m wrote

Actually that's exactly what happens. A caterpillar is literally transformed into a butterfly inside a chrysalis. It's not a conscious daily effort to progress into a butterfly. It's a biological transformation that essentially destroys the caterpillar and creates a butterfly. When the butterfly emerges, it is basically suddenly waking up as a butterfly.

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Psychological_Bed_17 t1_jbh63s4 wrote

True but the caterpillar had to survive for its entire life then labor to build the caccoon without being eaten

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[deleted] t1_jbhbbrb wrote

Sure, but he still died. He basically builds his own casket and then dies in it. Any attempt to analogize this to humans automatically brings with it a requisite belief in an afterlife as that is what a butterfly would have to be analogous to.

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exceptionallyhonest t1_jbhhref wrote

But don’t they recognize things from their caterpillar life? Proving that it’s a conscious transformation?

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President_Calhoun t1_jbktaxg wrote

There have been studies that suggest that butterflies retain at least some of their caterpillar memories. I don't think that indicates that it's a conscious transformation, though.

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BrotherRoga t1_jbi4xb7 wrote

So what this "motivational" thing is telling us is that to become something beautiful we have to let ourselves be destroyed and remolded into that beautiful thing.

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