fossilesqueIntelligent Design
TropicalDingdongEvolution: bruh all that matters is that you are a horndog.
ryedaftdat pelvis š«¦
Itās so weird thinking about how weāre just copying DNA. Thatās pretty much the purpose of life; replicate these strange molecules as much as possible. Consciousness is some unintended byproduct of the ācopy foreverā algorithm.
And the contents of the information being copied is basically a recepie for building a machine that can make copies of the information needed to build that machineā¦
mercItās so weird thinking about how weāre just copying DNA.
Whatās more interesting to me is that weāre not just copying it. Weāre taking two strands of DNA and randomly choosing some from each strand. Some animals are clones of their parent, but most are a randomized mix from each parent. The strands are 99% the same, so to a certain extent itās just copying that molecule, but itās also trying to perfect that remaining 1%.
Instead of being a way to copy a molecule forever, itās a way to optimize that molecule. But, what is an optimal molecule? Itās a molecule that contains instructions to generate a creature that has 2 legs, 2 hands, a brain, etc.
FuckyWucky [none/use name]and the whole thing is based around killing and eating one another.
MissJinxno but honestly, periods are great. The feeling when all that extra blood leaves your body is amazing. Guys will never know what itās like being somewhere and sudenly feeling warmth blood running down your legs out of nowhere. Amazing. 10/10 would ome back as a woman again
SalvoI honestly donāt know any proponents of āintelligent designā who are female.
Except the Sycophantic Patriarchal TERFs who do everything their husbands tell them to do.
I cannot describe how much I hate this feeling. Itās probably honestly been protective because I have another reason to always use condoms, and even when Iām drunk, Iām still autistic.
Triggered lmao. A flood of memories just came back like
Ha, nice try. There are no women in Lemmy
ScrubblesI forget who but a comedian said it well. If we were intelligently designed it was the first design. Why would they ever put the amusement park right next to the sewage system?
I feel like if there ever was an advertisement park it would be perfectly placed right next to the sewage system.
Ha, fair. Fixed now
looks at Disney world
Looks at that one carnival cruise ship
Same reason they mixed the vestibular system with the vision system. Do you want a different body part for every single body function? Thatād be a lot of extra weight and things to take care of.
Plenty of animals have their excretion outlet and their food inlet in the same place.
For birds the cloaca is both for excretion and sex.
MinnesotaGoddamah, the orifice of kings
George Carlin, I think.
Whatās the smart nerve taking a detour one?
And it does that for both humansā¦ And giraffes.
Isnāt that just a way to average latency to match up with the other limbs? Nerve conndctions arenāt instantaneous lile electrical wires or fiber optics.
Your larynx isnāt really a limbā¦ But nah, its an evolutionary artefact. In primordial fish itās a straight line, but then the head moves, a neck forms, etc etc. and the nerve canāt detach and move over, so it gets longer wnd weirder.
rockerfacešŗš¦Brain usually does that kind of sync on its own. Your conscious experience of reality is actually very slightly in the past because of that.
This is why itās so jarring when what happens in real life doesnāt line up with the predicted reality your brain expects! I hate that feeling :D
apotheotic (she/her)Vagus nerve
Funny they didnāt use a giraffe for that one. Itās like a few inches out of the way for humans - Itās feet for giraffes
Bro the giraffeās vagus nerve goes to their feet??
No, it is feet
Thatās what I said
No no, it is feet, as in made of feet.
Richard Dawkins demonstrates laryngeal nerve of the giraffe
For clarity I know what you mean I just love silly humour
That video is wiiiild
š° š š± š¦ š³ š¦ š° š® Thought that knee diagram was a pelvis at first glance and was wondering how that was related to sports.
Mmh, pelvis sports.
Optimization was never the goal. It just has to function well enough for a sufficient portion of the species to reproduce.
Literally the evolutionary equivalent of āeh, good enoughā
Evolution is an optimisation process, just a very slow, wasteful and stupid one. It finds local optima which it usually gets stuck in.
evolution is the epitome of āgood enough, ship it!ā
Who the fuck would design ingrown nails??
Donāt forget āthe bush that tells theocratic ephebophiles that itās no longer pedophiliaā!
also the eye development, Cephalapods dont have this weakness, the blindpsot.
Also hiccups
ElgenzayThe nerve thing bothers me. I wish to learn nothing more of it
Bro myopia is the least stupid part of our eye design problems. Our retinas are built entirely backwards for no other reason besides evolution making a mistake and then duct taping over it too much to fix it later.
If your retina was the right way around (like cephalopod eyes) you would have:
- No blind spots
- Higher fidelity vision even with the same number of receptors since the nerves and blood vessels wouldnāt interfere like they do now
- much lower likelihood of retinal detachment since you could attach it for real in the first place
- possibility for better brightness/darkness resolution since blood supply could be greater without affecting light passage
- possibility for better resolution because ganglion nerves can be packed more densely without affecting light passage
- The ability to regenerate cones and rods because you could, again, ACTUALLY HAVE SUPPORT CELLS WITHOUT BLOCKING LIGHT TO THE RETINA
Our eyes are built in the stupidest way possible.
Another fun fact: retinol is regenerated by your liver. Not your eyes, not some part of your brain, not some organ near your head like your thalamus which could probably get the job done if it tried, your fucking liver. Your eyes taking a while to adjust to the dark has basically nothing to do with your eyes; itās because of the delay in adjustment by your fucking liver to produce more retinal, dump it into your vascular system and wait for it to hopefully reach your eyes. Why are we built like this?!
Iām reading this with my poorly designed eyes right now!
I wish we could use genetics or some interest8ng science to fix this.
Iād be down for some cybernetic eyes with better resolution and a zoom option and shit
Not just eyes.
Also, i wouldnāt consider them ācyberneticā, iād consider them āimprovedā or āupgradedā.
Maybe āaugmentedā?
Who needs augmentation? Letās just get the organ printer out and update to Mk2 Eyeball.
oh and built in wireless connection so that MaxiEyes Inc. can recommend you products based on what you see at any moment.
Does eye excercises fix myopia?
Can we have an eye transplant from an octopus please? And while we are at it, can we have a couple of tentacles too?
what if i promise to use the tentacles for music and not sex?