tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026018.post114247633706075738..comments2023-10-28T00:52:55.415-07:00Comments on Life, Raptoral atavism and Everything: Organic test for primality, number systems and how dinosaurs humpedIshwarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10555957371520017415noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026018.post-1143996013884915542006-04-02T09:40:00.000-07:002006-04-02T09:40:00.000-07:00how would the successful plants propagate the inte...<I>how would the successful plants propagate the interval to the next generation? through the goddamned genes. and the plants have to calculate the breeding cycle..<BR/></I><BR/><BR/>Whaaatt??? Calculate? Ishwar, are you sure you understand evolution and natural selection?Ambarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00959181158032836709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026018.post-1142514243434189192006-03-16T05:04:00.000-08:002006-03-16T05:04:00.000-08:00Ishwar, try to understand his point before dismiss...Ishwar, try to understand his point before dismissing. ;) He brings up the same point as I did the other day. There could've been different breeding cycles and the one with a favourable one would have been chosen by natural selection. The organism happily perpetuates the cycle without actually knowing that the frequency is a prime number. When I said this, you countered with a (IMO, weak) argument saying it would be a big coincidence to have 11, 13, 17, 19 across species.<BR/><BR/>P.S. I've indulged a bit with verbiage of teleological and anthropomorphic bent.Sundarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12916212734451428884noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026018.post-1142511587956053442006-03-16T04:19:00.000-08:002006-03-16T04:19:00.000-08:00crappy beyond comprehension... read your logic.how...crappy beyond comprehension... read your logic.<BR/><BR/>how would the successful plants propagate the interval to the next generation? through the goddamned genes. and the plants have to calculate the breeding cycle..<BR/><BR/>get a freaking brain, dude!Ishwarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10555957371520017415noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026018.post-1142510993768750092006-03-16T04:09:00.000-08:002006-03-16T04:09:00.000-08:00were wondering how purely biological systems had t...<I> were wondering how purely biological systems had tests for primality. The least they need is to have is a mechanism for subtraction and a counter, and a loop of course. Still beats me.</I><BR/><BR/>Absolute BS. They don't need to do any of this. If breeding occuring at prime-number intervals is the most advantageous strategy in given conditions, it will be the one which selection favours over other intervals. Hence it survives and propagates.<BR/><BR/>Rest assured there would have been Cicadas with genes causing breeding every 10 years at some point. Just that those genes wouldn't have done too well.Ambarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00959181158032836709noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7026018.post-1142487974415089492006-03-15T21:46:00.000-08:002006-03-15T21:46:00.000-08:00Didn't know that you've started blogging again. By...Didn't know that you've started blogging again. By the way, this pseudo-skepticism, practical hypocrisy etc., are a part of my own efforts to start "belonging" somewhere. So, in a sense, you were an incidental strawman (and might continue to be so). :-)Sundarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12916212734451428884noreply@blogger.com