Evolution
(midwest.social)
Track_Shovel
Science Memesor become a supernatural angel.
There are just so few optimal solutions to the same problem.
It’s also why we should always try to copy nature when it comes to technology.
Coral are trees.
everything in nature has analagous structures. if you don't see them you're either looking too close or too far and you need to shift your perspective. a coral reef is a forest and the corals are the trees.
This is lemmy. It's not like we need a special time
Nah, it's a routine.
Me too, thanks. If I'm not making a total ass of myself, you need to get me to a hospital because something is wrong
Orson Scott Card was right*.
*About one particular thing.
angry, well I'm not sure whether my morality gland, my hedonism gland, or my good writing gland is more offended but whichever it is it's making angry noises
In Speaker for the Dead?
Yes, piggy.
I tried to go on past this one but I stopped at the fourth. I couldn't. You're observantly meaning in your description of limited precision.
Orion by Ben Nova was a bit more precise to what we see happening here.
Haven’t read Orion. Arborification?
Orson Scott Card is a curious cat. He seems quite intelligent and open-minded until we get to his homophobia. It would be irresponsible not to speculate…
If you want to see philosophers duke it out, read Orson Scott Card’s Alvin Maker series alongside Robert Anton Wilson’s Illuminatus! trilogy.
is cosmic trigger also okay? I don't think I have it in me to read all of Illuminatus! but I have read about 1.5 books of cosmic trigger
I don't give a flying fuck about OSC's philosophy of anything at all, in particular.
Neanderthals in particular on Orion. AI, "The Devil" & their relationship with trees and what trees were like, then. Much better a perspective that OSC, certainly.
The word “tree” just describes a plant phenotype, nothing more
Fish
Bzzz Bzzz went the fish
There's also anteaters
There are anteaters! Well done!
Big if true
Small if false
Medium if ambiguous
Asymmetric if uncertain
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
Why couldn't they just have called it "crabinization?"
sounds like getting lice.
It is worth noting – as someone who's reasonably knowledgeable about arguably the main example, king crabs – that carcinisation is really interesting, but I think some people took the meme semi-unironically as this especially widespread example of convergent evolution.
In reality, it's confined to some members of the true crabs' sister infraorder, Anomura. Which is still super cool, but even the faintest notion that crabs are some singularly ideal ~~male body~~ body form is just a runaway shitpost.
the faintest notion that crabs are some singularly ideal ~~male body~~ body form is just a runaway shitpost.
What about that sounds like something I wouldn't want to start a cult about?
What meme?
This one. It's easy enough seeing these, if you're not familiar with the subject, to overzealously think that this is a widespread phenomenon.
I thoughts snakes are all related?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legless_lizard
So the meme isn't about Snakes but limbless lizards that look like snakes
I might be misunderstanding but isn't that how this works? As I understand it carcinisation doesn't actually turn for example lobsters into crabs, it just makes them crab-shaped
Exactly. The meme doesn't say that they turn into crabs but uses the correct term of carcinisation. Tree is a term about morphology, nothing to do with clades. So snakes is the odd one out because it does describe a monophonic group. Lizards don't turn into snakes, they just look like them.
That’s how I’m reading it at least.
