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Zachobomb t1_jabn82y wrote

Reply to comment by fletch44 in Why does temperature determine the sex of certain egg laying animals like crocodiles? by insink2300

Have you thought about the modality of disease vectors with this conversation? Maybe disease is a more efficient form of life. Maybe parasitism would be recursive and self contained in a computational mind frame. Other commenters have mentioned evolutions “discernment” of a modality and this is a flawed frame.

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TestTubeRagdoll t1_jabrave wrote

Not sure what you’re getting at here, can you clarify? What does this have to do with temperature-dependent sex determination?

Something like a virus could be considered “efficient” in that it has a small genome because it hijacks host machinery to replicate, but it can’t be “self-contained” due to this reliance on a host.

But genuinely, what are you trying to say here?

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