Category: Shower Thoughts
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Errors as Information
Evolution’s two most potent tools are the passage of time, and random errors. In order to progress nature relies on variation between generations (errors across time.) In fact, we only call them “errors” because we’re focused on the wrong end-goal – we measure the ability for an organism to copy itself and pass along its…
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Adaptability
Humans are a funny species. We’re not the fastest runners, we’re not the best climbers, we can’t swim too deeply. Our young take years to become anything less than a liability, and many more to become self sufficient. We are profoundly mediocre at the majority of life’s basic activities. But we are extremely adaptable. I…