Musings on
how to survive the cold from a few million years back.
Sure, adapt-and-survive sounds like a simple teaching method. But I'm sitting in a house my genes didn't tell me to inhabit.
Did dinos learn tricks from their peers, or only from the harsh gene and its minions? Complex systems answering complex systems without the interference of "free will." Some lessons are given; others are taken. Learning which is which may be a checkbox on the Big Gun Club entry form.
If dinos ever taught dinos, what does it mean for you to say you are human?
All I can say is: three cheers for atmosphere. I don't think genes could learn so quickly if our nice fluffy blanket were pulled away.