I mean, granted, gene expression is tough business full of weird mechanics. but it has to work at least on average, if adaptation is to happen at all (which I'm assuming we all agree it does).
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @thomasmurphy__ and
those ontogenetic activities you mentioned are surely interesting loci for engineering, but absent such engineering, failing to express useful phenotypes is a death sentence.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @thomasmurphy__ and
and yes, phenotypes and traits and functions and the like are vague signifiers, because they can be basically anything.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @thomasmurphy__ and
"Generalization is what pragmatic intelligence is for (which means it’s what intelligence in general has been kept around for)"http://www.xenosystems.net/stereotypes-ii/
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @thomasmurphy__ and
Two fundamentally differing sorts of generalization:pic.twitter.com/LsdsEBuD0x
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Replying to @______138190 @thomasmurphy__ and
makes it sound like there's no real use for them (which prompts the question of why it's still so prevalent).
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @thomasmurphy__ and
Not at all. What's at issue isn't generalization, but (unrecognized) chimerism. A Chimaera presupposes the combinatorial generalization of living flesh, its connectivity, and parts - animate meat, or golem clay. Imaginally it can all work the same: necks, flanks, tails, snakes...
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Chimerism is obviously cool, but how exactly does it explain Australians again?
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... The key for an understanding of Australians is clearly Ring Topology.
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