an animal's Unwelt is like a spider web

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An example of an extended simile used to explain a scientific concept:

"Every subject spins out, like the spider's threads, its relations to certain qualities of things and weaves them into a solid web, which carries its existence."

Jakob von Uexküll (1934/2010). A Foray into the Worlds of Animals

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