This was a delightful find, thank you for sharing! In part due to burned out biology teachers in high school and probably in part due to my natural inclination I've never much thought about...
This was a delightful find, thank you for sharing!
In part due to burned out biology teachers in high school and probably in part due to my natural inclination I've never much thought about biology beyond some philosophical/ethical/design questions. So I am glad to have gotten this refreshing shift in perspective with such nice explanation and examples.
Unpredictability/surprise/adaptability were some of the main themes of the Dune book series and it lightly touched on this topic in the context of the mentioned "tiers of biological cognition" as well. The books made a significant change to how I notice unpredictability/surprise in different aspects of life and this time I was surprised to find just how deeply it's engrained in our nature it is as well, especially in the lower tiers. For example it seemed logical for bees to be able to adapt to find flowers in different places (one year they might be here, next there, etc), but somehow I kept imagining genome as this very rigid "package of code" that somehow precisely builds an organism.
This was a delightful find, thank you for sharing!
In part due to burned out biology teachers in high school and probably in part due to my natural inclination I've never much thought about biology beyond some philosophical/ethical/design questions. So I am glad to have gotten this refreshing shift in perspective with such nice explanation and examples.
Unpredictability/surprise/adaptability were some of the main themes of the Dune book series and it lightly touched on this topic in the context of the mentioned "tiers of biological cognition" as well. The books made a significant change to how I notice unpredictability/surprise in different aspects of life and this time I was surprised to find just how deeply it's engrained in our nature it is as well, especially in the lower tiers. For example it seemed logical for bees to be able to adapt to find flowers in different places (one year they might be here, next there, etc), but somehow I kept imagining genome as this very rigid "package of code" that somehow precisely builds an organism.