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  • XIIIesq@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldHow do trees know?
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    2 months ago

    It’s feed back only in the sense that it can be seen as a success or a failure by an independent observer.

    It’s not like a tree can see that last year’s seeds weren’t very good and try a different mutation this year.

    Genes are not self aware, mutations do not have an end goal and survival simply comes down to chance.






  • Devils advocate:

    If you’re known as a guy that loves Pokémon cards and people keep gifting you Weedle’s (one of the lowest powered and most common cards in the game), then after a while you’re going to be like “thanks guys, I know you want to gift me and to not just throw the card away, but these are worth literally nothing to me because I already have much nicer examples and I don’t need/want/have room for them, I’d just be throwing them away myself”.