how terrifying metamorphosis must be for the caterpillar has no concept of what it is doing, or what a butterfly is, or what will happen to it as it spins itself the cocoon. we r more alike than different
there are parts of your future self in you waiting emerge but you have to become unrecognizable slime first
Even cooler, recent research has determined (through classic conditioning of caterpillars) that these insects generally retain their memories from before metamorphosis into their new form!
Its like if you were born with your adult size body parts already stored in your ribcage as a set of these:
But instead of growing in water, they grow in the stew of your melted guts as soon you hit puberty
