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Originally Posted by Sparrow
somehow it knows? instinct. DNA. animal behavior is encoded, bruh. read a book.
more powerful and meaningful? bullshit. it's the gooey, reactive material we happen to have. full stop. we humans are hungry for patterns and meaning, does not necessitate they be so.
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I read plenty of books, and that's right "Somehow it knows" and we don't know how it knows. I don't know what your point is besides being insulting.
It's just not so simple, we used to think the "encoding" was in the grey matter. There are patterns and meaning, its the mystic crap that tries to explain it away. Science looks for the pattern, the formula, the why and how. What is instinct how does DNA tell a Monarch to create super Monarch every 7 or 8 generations so it can survive the journey back to Mexico. How does the DNA replicating sequence change automatically, and what in the butterfly makes it lay its eggs on plant 'A' and not any of the thousands of others available. It's not grey matter, because that doesn't carry over directly.