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May 15Liked by Seeds of Science

So is the upshot here that hummingbirds can't really store much energy and are constantly on the brink of starvation?

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I like the limb Trevor Klee is going out on here, and will climb out there too. I have published a bit about how I redefine learning, and some impacts that could have on humans, but I haven't gone into detail yet about other impacts. Like with this reconceptualization of learning, learning isn't only something "intelligent" life does; in fact anything that actively interacts with the environment its in is capable of learning; what seperates higher order learning from simple existence is how aware we are of the process, aka levels of cognition and metacognition.

In this situation cells are learning entities. They act and react to environmental changes and in doing so change the environment they are in. Heres where Im really out on that limb, but, if the cells somehow are budgeting their energy, there is some sence of predicting the environment for the future- and some sense of memory (at least to establishing a "normal" that then changes in response to changing enviromental feedback). I ponder is these could be epigenetic changes; does the folding and refolding of various portions of DNA act as a memory bank- in a way- that then assumes consistency until there is another major environmental change??

I'm really just at the beginnings of pondering this out, but this article made me think of the connection.

(Also I've probably written all this very poorly, please forgive me and ask lots of questions as needed! Lol)

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