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marcos@lemmy.world 4 months agothe failed ones have not been able to compete or pass their genes on
Well, that’s feedback.
That the feedback mechanism that makes the process work. What is hard to understand is that it “informs” a population, not any individual.
13esq@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s feed back only in the sense that it can be observed as a success or a failure by an independent party.
It’s not like a tree can see that last year’s seeds weren’t very good and try a different mutation this year.
Genes are not self aware, they do not have an end goal and their survival simply comes down to chance.