WhiteBear
Jedi Master
Great show! Joe's speculation on the intelligence (and malevolence) of plants was hilarious!
It got me thinking, though. Where does the "organic portal" mechanism kick in? Is it only applicable to animals, where the individual's "soul shard" returns to the archetypal soul (i.e. when a squirrel dies, it's soul shard returns to the squirrel archetype), or does it apply to plants as well? It seems to me that the method might apply for 1D/2D transitions as well...and if that's the case, maybe beneficial mutations aren't random Darwinism at all, but are guided by the archetype?
It got me thinking, though. Where does the "organic portal" mechanism kick in? Is it only applicable to animals, where the individual's "soul shard" returns to the archetypal soul (i.e. when a squirrel dies, it's soul shard returns to the squirrel archetype), or does it apply to plants as well? It seems to me that the method might apply for 1D/2D transitions as well...and if that's the case, maybe beneficial mutations aren't random Darwinism at all, but are guided by the archetype?