How do spiders see?
Jul. 8th, 2025 03:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rynlingIs a spider's vision stitched together like ours?
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/a0v8wy/is_a_spiders_vision_stitched_together_like_ours/
So, it's reasonable to suppose that information from the spider's primary and secondary eyes is integrated in the spider's brain, and in whatever way a spider has visual experience - which is certainly inconceivable to us - it experiences all its eyes in a single integrated frame. I think you'd kind of need a reason to suppose that spider vision is not integrated.
It's very cool that there are people in the world studying things like this. And, personally speaking, I think it would be fun to have secondary eyes. I love perceiving light and motion, no joke.
I'm doing this research for the story I want to write for the Bloodborne zine (here) btw. Sign-ups for contributors are open until June 20 if you're interested.
https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/a0v8wy/is_a_spiders_vision_stitched_together_like_ours/
So, it's reasonable to suppose that information from the spider's primary and secondary eyes is integrated in the spider's brain, and in whatever way a spider has visual experience - which is certainly inconceivable to us - it experiences all its eyes in a single integrated frame. I think you'd kind of need a reason to suppose that spider vision is not integrated.
It's very cool that there are people in the world studying things like this. And, personally speaking, I think it would be fun to have secondary eyes. I love perceiving light and motion, no joke.
I'm doing this research for the story I want to write for the Bloodborne zine (here) btw. Sign-ups for contributors are open until June 20 if you're interested.
