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Organisms are not exactly like machines: machines are created by bringing together specialized parts and assembling them in precise arrangements, while organisms are created by differentiation of copies grown from a single seed. Reproduction is existence under destructive pressure: a broken cell wall is torn, the tear isn't sewn shut; rather, the two torn borders reform into two walls, closing back to their respective sides, creating two cells. See Terrence Deacon. Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. At a given moment, a species is already in evolutionary motion. Naturally selected mutations are improvements to a specialized component according to the context of that component within the rest of the organism and its lifeways. How did multicellularity emerge? Maybe sticking together was good for avoiding predators, or was good, in a kin-selection way, for partially surviving environmental toxins. Once you're sticking together, by kin-selection, the outer cells may as well be tougher, and

Rootedness October 27, 2022 [This post is labeled בבל, meaning it's especially experimental. See: בבל disclaimer ] A subgoal sticks its head into eternity. 1. Differentiation 2. Inversion 3. Subgoal topology 4. Ekstrophe 1. Differentiation Organisms are not exactly like machines: machines are created by bringing together specialized parts and assembling them in precise arrangements, while organisms are created by differentiation of copies grown from a single seed. Reproduction is existence under destructive pressure: a broken cell wall is torn, the tear isn't sewn shut; rather, the two torn bo

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