Timeline for Can anything happen at any time right now if there is infinite Possibilities in life?
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| Mar 24 at 16:11 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | Also rapidly decreasing benefit for having more eyes? 2 cover basically the entire sphere in many birds, rabbits etc. How would more help at all? Network effects: increasingly more brainpower required to integrate more inputs. | |
| Mar 24 at 14:09 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | Once something works, alternatives have a tougher time getting started. "Nothing succeeds like Success." Bilateral symmetry was a pretty early innovation. So then odd numbers of limbs, etc seem awkward. Starfish are radial symmetry, and 5 is one of the lower Fibonacci numbers that fill the niches. Look at a seedhead, or a pineapple. Octopus is pretty ideal: one brain for each limb, and one brain to rule them all. | |
| Mar 23 at 20:06 | comment | added | Idiosyncratic Soul | @ScottRowe It's as if evolution reduces randomness. | |
| Mar 23 at 19:59 | comment | added | Idiosyncratic Soul | @ScottRowe It's true there have been some strange life on earth there is plenty of diversity. At the same time, there is undeniable commonality: An organism can have multiple eyes, yet an inordinate number of mammals have just two eyes. Not a gaussian distribution of numbers of eyes. | |
| Mar 23 at 11:26 | comment | added | Scott Rowe | Most of the universe is pretty boring. Larger and older wouldn't alter that much. That said, there have been some pretty weird lifeforms on Earth. | |
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| Mar 23 at 3:39 | history | edited | Idiosyncratic Soul | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 23 at 3:32 | history | answered | Idiosyncratic Soul | CC BY-SA 4.0 |