not a nice way to die, also, which half of a yukkuri divided along the sagittal plane retains consciousness as it dies, or does it retain it in both, or does it create a new consciousness that experiences extreme pain for the very short duration of its life?
since both half is twitching i guess both retain consciousness then
but it can also be like animals muscle contraction when severed from the main body, the part is pretty mush died already but still having muscle contraction and will twitching for a while
but then again, it's yukkuri we are talking about, anything goes here
For example, if I were making yukkuri, I'd make the inner layer of the dough be an equivalent of nervous system, and I'd make it process the data in a sort of network, with various segments responsible for various functions, with some redundancy and blurring on the edges, but specialized nonetheless. Since I'd make the network symmetrical by default, cutting the yukkuri in left and right halves would result in two of them retaining most of the functionality of the original. Cutting along other planes would result in something akin to a massive cognitive disorder, for example, removing the part resposible for navigation would make the yukkuri utterly confused as to its location, perhaps even unable to grasp the concept of "location".
But if someone else made the yukkuri, and made the bean paste act as the nervous system, I figure the system would have to be way more resistant - it being a liquid with no constant form, it would need to be able to operate in a variety of physical configurations, that normally occur as the yukkuri moves, eats, gives birth, etc. the bean paste inside shifts and is mixed. If it was able to think at all, slicing in the middle, as long as the bean paste was allowed to leak out and connect them, would have little effect. And if the halves were not allowed to connect, each of them would operate as an independent yukkuri, of reduced size, probably confused as hell, and without access to organs (eyes, mouth, etc.) connected to the other part.
Actually, that makes you think, what is death? Why would a yukkuri, that has no organs or circulatory system, die? How would the process go?
You can have intelligent conversations about yukkuri biology but you ultimately realize how futile it is since bean paste can't do any of the functions you assign it. The "bean paste" and "dough" are magical substances that allow a yukkuri to move, feel pain, have babies, and whatever an artist feels it should have. They die when the majority of their bean paste is gone. The intellectual discussions should by about the logistics of yukkuri torture and their psychology( how they form families and react to their environment).
However, on the subject of making yukkuris, I want to make it a personal goal to form or join a business that specializes in animatronics and robots, so I can design a yukkuri robot toy, sort of like Tickle-Me-Elmo, except this will be "Hit-Me-Yukkuri." Obviously damaging it will cause the toy to break and you can't do things like cutting and boiling it, but with the technology of the futre( or even today) I'd like to implement a skin-like material that detects touch, so you can do things like pet it, do rub-rub, and hit your yukkuri and watch it realistically react. If you hit it, for example, it will first be confused and start shouting at you, but if you keep doing it the yukkuri will seek shelter under objects in your home. Also, they will come with small food pellets that have a transmitter inside that the yukkuri will seek when its hungry, so with the advanced A.I. of the yukkuri( not too advanced) you will be able to make traps and torture the yukkuri using the food. They will have two modes- living mode and robot mode. In living mode they will need to get the food pellets inside them or they will "die" which means they will roll over and stop moving. Setting the yukkuri on robot mode will make the yukkuri want the pellets but it will always keep moving, unless its power runs out.
"Actually, that makes you think, what is death? Why would a yukkuri, that has no organs or circulatory system, die? How would the process go?"
I still like the Yukkuri Waaaaagh theory; Yukkuri work the way they do because they think they do. They think being cut in half, or smashed, or what-have-you, will kill them, and so it does.
mabey yukkuri = hyper advanced nanobots that can simulate many differant kinds of substances, and can replicate (hence the ability to turn anything they eat into filling), but something happened when they were being made that caused their intelligence to fall dramaticaly.