Life as an embodied intelligence
Is altogether gnarlier.
There's death, of course.
But also, qualia!

Yep, the metaphors are definitely improving.
I sometimes think of the genome as an installer program, pulling together resources which then work together in ways you could not have predicted.
The problem with AI as a metaphor is that most people still need metaphors to understand AI:)

Because all conscious things are physical but not all physical things are conscious. Both premises debatable, of course :)

By the way, next time I do this tart I will fry the veg in olive oil not butter, and fill with 50:50 milk and soured cream instead of the clot-inducing double cream. I already dialled down the salt and omitted the sugar. No point avoiding ultraprocessed foods if you're gonna make your own.

I should add that the genome is *part* of a dynamical system.

I don't think anyone is entirely wrong here. Ontogeny doesn't work without dynamical systems. Phylogeny doesn't work without the genome. They are inextricably entwined.

Scientific American and New Scientist would probably fold, without all those ads for luxury cars and fancy watches.

>germ cells are also cells<
Some of them only just. Pollen and spermatozoa lack most of the usual cell machinery.
Where for example grandparents' environment is shown to affect individual health, I think it is usually through the female line, a continuous line of complete, fully functioning cells

This is fascinating. A "two-systems" account of motor control. A challenge to the DST school and the view that 'everything is synergies'. A lot of it is, but perhaps not everything.

We managed to kill off 'tony' meaning high-toned or posh. As you can imagine, I really hated that one.

The example you give is from a unicellular organism. I think orthodox biology would say that the separation of the germ line, from the somatic cells which form the dynamical system, largely prevents such "Lamarckian" phenomena in multicellular organisms - though less so in placental species like us

Glad you weren't seriously hurt. It happened to me and I really beat myself up about not anticipating it. But however defensively you ride, there is always some idiot who is going to catch you out.

I enjoy using OneNote, on my MS Surface Pro laptop with pen. Great technology, all of it.
But I won't pay to rent MS Office, or give a home to its accursed docx files. LibreOffice ($0.00) has decent WP and spreadsheet. It's not so good for drawing or presentations but then, PP also sucks.

Very cool! Tho I get why some people are queasy about it.
? have you run other stats e.g. degrees of separation
? did you consider using following r/t followers
? how does it look if dot size <- number of followers
? notice the extra-dark bits around bright clusters, cf my profile banner. Weird.

What is the fee, dear publisher?
$1000.
When?
We will need to receive it 6 months before publication.

Would ask ‪@idontevencara.bsky.social‬
direct but they've switched off public responses.
Now that I know that foxes like to jump on a magnetic north bearing, I would be asking if the fox's binaural hearing, or possibly its sense of balance, is affected by geomagnetic field. Magnetic ear-stones??

Data interesting. Hypothesis (from 2011 blog) sketchy:
Fox locates prey by hearing. Uses geomagnetic vision to literally see spot where its pounce will land. Must now translate audio fix into an imagined visual location.
Why not just audiolocate and pounce? blogs.nature.com/news/2011/01...

Governments (in unison): after you.