Can someone PLEASE explain to me how eraser canonically doesn't have a brain and still functions? And bubble too i think? because if the organspace theory applies here and objects do have brains that are just on another plane, then how do they do anything? Are they like a jellyfish???
Ohh I’ve been waiting for someone to ask me about Eraser’s brain problem, I’ll get into Bubble at the end of the post, skip to it if you, the reader, so wish.
Eraser: No brain, no gain?
There are two real world examples (that I know of) we can point to to help answer your answer.
Jellyfish (as you mentioned) and arthropods.
Jellyfish have decentralised nervous system, unlike Us who have one. This mean no nerve cord and no brain, instead they have a ring/tangle of nerves (called a nerve net) in their bell (the main part of a jellyfish) with structures similar to nerve endings branching off called “rhopalia”. The nerve net is responsible for responding to changes in the environment along with automatic responses. The rhopalia are used for light detection and maintaining balance.
This system helps the jellyfish to easily recover from damage to their bell. This is useful for the fragility of erasers as, you know, they’re much more easier to break and so suffer from damage a lot more.
But as you know jellyfish don’t have much of a consciousness unlike Erasers, mainly due to their simple nervous system that doesn’t allow for more complex thought.
Arthropods actually DO have a centralised nervous system. It’s composed of a nerve cord and multiple ganglia.
What are ganglia? Ganglia are clumps of nerve cell bodies, which are the “centre” of a nerve cell as they contain the nucleus and other organelles like mitochondria. Ganglia are most known for managing muscle control/body movement. However, they can be used to manage more complex things such as emotions.
They’re like simple brains technically. You too also have ganglia but they’re more for managing the signals the brain sends them rather than being the ‘brain’ of a CNS, like in arthropods such as grasshoppers.
It’s most likely what Eraser has instead of an actual brain. Probably multiple of them.
Eraser: Potential hybrid of both systems?
I propose a SIMPLIFIED portrayal of Eraser’s nervous system.
Eraser has many ganglia through his object, connected by nerves. These ganglia send signals to each other in a big communication network that is technically like a brain.
The pseudo-decentralised system of it all is like this so that even if some ganglia are damaged, the rest of the network can still carry as normal with the rest of the ganglia. Ganglia are simpler than brains and so require less energy to produce, which helps out with the idea that objects can regenerate damage. That’s at least my headcanon, taken from Objectified.
So Eraser is essentially a jelly…bug, jellyfish-bug.
Bubble isn’t stated to not have a brain. Only eraser’s species is stated to not have one.
But of course, Bubble’s brain is probably pushed into organspace, though you could probably see it with a blacklight. That’s just an idea that I took off someone else earlier in my posts.
For objects that have their organs, like brains, packed away into organspace, they just have their nerves. But how do the nerves connect back to the organs?
I quickly came up with an iffy idea:
You have two versions of a nerve (no matter the type) in an object in cases like these. The nerves that are physically present and the nerves that are in organspace.
They connect to each other via the help of specialised companion called, that I’m just gonna call “Quantocytes”. These cells, through a hand-wavy means, can open holes in the barrier between our reality and organspace, making these intangible tunnels where both versions of the nerves can actually connect.
This also applies to other things such as blood vessels and the throat.
If you’re really careful with it, you can separate the physical nerves (along with blood vessels) from these quantocytes so that a limb can be separated just fine! How is the separation done? Maybe through manipulating quantum space in a way, you can create a divide that makes this separation, idk this is a half-baked idea.
It’s a skill that probably comes naturally to a lot of objects. Though a machine could probably do it too.
Quantocytes are like magnets, which is why you can reattach these limbs just fine. But the body could also reject these limbs if they come from another object, due to recognising them as non-self and mistaking them for a pathogen.
