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[Magmacube_tr]

1a: lose sapience for more toxin

You can't lose sapience. You can adapt for different lifestyles, but you cannot lose sapience.

1b: more brain

Also, you can't get smarter than a sapient state.

[TricMagic]

Meanwhile, mine are now dolphins of the magmacube world. Just this side of sentience without any of that pesky sapience.

[Crystalizedmire]

I'm pretty sure Magmacube considers dolphins to be sapient

[Magmacube_tr]

I'm pretty sure Magmacube considers dolphins to be sapient

What makes you think that? I am I kinda do but-

[Crystalizedmire]

I'm pretty sure Magmacube considers dolphins to be sapient

What makes you think that? I am I kinda do but-

Look guys, gonna be honest with you. Situation with poison fishies is going to go from bad to worse.

Sapience is not a very special thing. Elephants, whales and crows are also sapient. Being sapient only means that a creature has a sense of self.

But when we talk about sapience in this context, the correct term would be "sophonence". Sophonence is a whole another thing. It can only appear when these pre-requisites are fulfilled. They don't have to be all separately adapted. One can make the other automatically appear; as in, species with hands gaining high intelligence will automatically get primitive tool use.

1: High enough brainpower.
2: The ability to use this brainpower to express and exhance ideas.
3: Ability to comprehend oneself and other such abstract concepts.
4: Extensive tool use and mastery of own environment.

While I don't know if dolphins tick 2 and 3 I do know they use tools. Considering that you consider elephants, whales, and crows sapient, I'm guessing that you consider dolphins to be too. But as you pointed out, the correct term is sophonence.

[brangerlon]

for the Domedewller
1. speciate:
1a: lose sapience for more toxin
2a: develop spines filled with toxin (derived from fuzz)
3a: more toxin
ssa: more toxin

1b: more brain

change a1 to MORE TOXIN

change b1 to SOLVE RACISM

[Crystalizedmire]

change b1 to SOLVE RACISM

You can do that?

[TricMagic]

I hope they roll a 1 and spark off a genocidal war based on the shape of the bodies.

[Magmacube_tr]

change b1 to SOLVE RACISM

You can do that?

The Domedwellers evolved to be very racist. brangerlon is trying to fix that.

I hope they roll a 1 and spark off a genocidal war based on the shape of the bodies.

That absolutely can happen. And I genuinely hope it does.

[Blood_Librarian]

1. Burrowing Krillgore create insulated nests to sleep in during the night, and regurgitate out a clotting agent to do so.
2.Migratory Shrimpgore adapt their Torporius nature into a resistance to cold temperatures as adaptions to their biochemistry to survive colder temperatures without expending as much energy without slowing down.
3.Cleaning Krillgore create insulated nests to sleep in during the night, and regurgitate out a clotting agent to do so.
SS.Speciate Pelagic Handfish Whalegore adapt to survive in high pressure, cold environments with body chemistry changes, send to Bathypelagic Zone.

wait is this THE FIRST SPECIATION OF BRANGERLON? EPIC. Do you want me to adapt my crabs to be domesticated for you to use in your epic wars?

[Magmacube_tr]

wait is this THE FIRST SPECIATION OF BRANGERLON? EPIC. Do you want me to adapt my crabs to be domesticated for you to use in your epic wars?

Not really. There is the glowyrm lineage which split much earlier.

Crab idea is fire tho.

[Knightwing64]

1. Obligatory brain upgrade, sapience?

2. Increase reproductive capabilities to be akin to rabbits in order to combat extinction.

3. Slowed cell degradation for longer lifespan and longer periods of fertility in the species.

SS: Massively increased memory and learning capabilities, allowing them as a species to learn and correct dangerous behavior and to remember other species behaviors and weak points to capitalize off of.

[TricMagic]

You know.. Increasing reproduction means needing to eat more in order to fuel it. On top of brains needing more to eat. And they live longer, so they end up self-competing and draining the sea dry of food.

[Knightwing64]

Yeah. So the prey either need to evolve in response or die.

🙄

[TricMagic]

Don't say I didn't warn you.