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 This story is wild. If the organization of the brain (or brain-like ganglion) in animals that undergo metamorphosis fundamentally changes, are they really the same animal after transition?

I love how weird nature is. 

https://www.quantamagazine.org/insect-brains-melt-and-rewire-during-metamorphosis-20230726/ 
 @8599d6ab I've found that the business literature is very interested in the e-e dilemma, but each paper seems to keep coming back to "it's an intractable problem, so <shrugs>". Seems like an avenue where cog sci could be applied usefully to help resolve.

(Thanks for the link, BTW. Will take a close read) 
 Preprint time! 

A new CoAx Lab and Behavioral Neurophysiology Lab collaboration project just dropped.

Here we look at how the brain, in particular cortical areas, regulates heart rate dynamics in humans.

Preprint: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.23.559114v1

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 @8599d6ab I wonder if this maps onto the exploration-exploitation dilemma. Are hedgehogs more exploitative, in terms of how they make decisions, while foxes are more exploratory?