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I don't see how genetics allowing for instinctual/"inherent" knowledge requires a creator. Once upon a time there was a bug that had a little sticky bit on it'
by jamilton 3y ago
I don't see how genetics allowing for instinctual/"inherent" knowledge requires a creator.
Once upon a time there was a bug that had a little sticky bit on it's butt, it had a billion descendants when one of them randomly had a gene that affected it's behavior such that it, I don't know, rested on high surfaces using the sticky bit and was safer from predators or something, and then had slightly more kids than the rest. And one of those kids randomly had a gene that gave it more sticky stuff, and one of it's kids used it a little more effectively, and so on and so forth. And that probably takes somewhere from tens of thousands to a few million years.
That's not meant to be literal, but that's the story in my head, and it doesn't feel like a huge leap to get to complex behaviors like webs.
- Keyframe 3y agoThat's the story. Genetic lottery propagates and amplifies (life-)winning traits forward, but who knows.
- pizzafeelsright 3y agoName an example of an advantage spontaneously manifesting outside of directed breeding by humans.