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>>or even breathe The same way your heart "knows" how to beat - it's a lower level function that happens without your conciousness. That's why people who are b
by gambiting 2y ago
>>or even breathe
The same way your heart "knows" how to beat - it's a lower level function that happens without your conciousness. That's why people who are brain dead still live and breathe and swallow and digest and their hearts livers and kidneys still do their job.
>>how are they hard wired to search for milk
The ones who didn't died, to put it bluntly. Obviously not human babies, this evolutionary step happened long long time before the earliest hominids.
- netcraft 2y agototally - but to be clear the question I have is more like "where in the body is this knowledge encoded (for lack of a better term)" Do you have neurons in your brain that are pre-wired for these things? Is that encoded in your DNA? Like physically how is it inherited and the selective pressures applied?
- zamfi 2y agoYes, yes, and you got it. Largely it’s DNA that controls development of neurons/muscles/etc. that mediate nursing, walking, and so on. On selective pressures: human babies that aren’t born with the ability to nurse, or foals born without the ability to walk—because their in-utero development didn’t allow it—historically don’t survive, and thus don’t reproduce.
- detourdog 2y agoI think it's a chemical structure reacting to an energetic stimulus.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> same way your heart "knows" how to beat - it's a lower level function that happens without your conciousness Heart cells in a Petri dish will happily beat away.
- s1artibartfast 2y agoThat isn't an explanation of how it works. This is kinda like explaining how a car works with "you fire and replace engineers until it moves".