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This is a big idea... nature doesn’t really do version control. Only limited 1-step backwards compatibility.
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More than version control, compatibility control for the basic inter-organism relations: sex, and feeding.
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Like I read recently that adult squirrels are immune to rattlesnake venom and therefore fight aggressively to distract from babies.
So flight —> fight shift must have happened.
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version control is an issue largely when entities matter more than the sets to which the entities belong
nature generally takes the alternative view
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this isn't the right level of scale of the idea above, but
i've heard neoteny is sort of version control. can always get back the kid version.
also "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny"
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What we really need is a random bit generator. Then we can program everything, even AI. Nature has demonstrated it. True AI is just time away.






