The Worthy
Nature lets Suzi communicate with the jungle's primal DNA on her own terms, holding her own against analytics and the likes of Suzi. Nature's knowledge of gene frequencies across eons of generations holds close to her bosom interaction and entanglements as if all entities were related. And at what cost? Can it be fate, she thinks, or simple destiny allowing natural selection to understand biological relativity
(behavior of relatives), as influence peddling for evolutionary gatekeepers of individual fitness?
Which one is it? Nature has had four billion tears to work out this particular algorithm--to stand up to Suzi's so-called analytics. After all this time one would think Nature would offer up some kind of certainty principle. History has demonstrated some advances--gene frequency increases within populations (preferably genes that encode fitness-enhancing traits). And were there some declines? There's always been those incessant genes that lower individual fitness--never entirely eliminated (yes, this is part of the bio-uncertainty principle).
Nature never talks about her mistakes, even as Humans advance onto their own paradoxical demise. Each and every mutation, at least in the eyes of Nature, is placed at the right moment in time.The only recourse for mistakes is to conjure up new, hypothetical genes to see if they prompt behavior to enhance fitness; or, maybe the closely related relatives lower the fitness of the carrier simply by odd displays of behavior, or, Nature may simply increase the gene's frequency in a population because of career carrier relatives. Nature may show anger in ways only she knows; in ways that make no sense to the computer literate; and in the end she shrugs knowingly over spacetime at her force algorithms--the force that drives all behavior--of kin selection, winning little battles in the war against natural selection. Yes, Nature feels satisfied.
Suzi will be a worthy opponent.
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