[Fis] Fwd: Contingency signals: AI Information, Decision and Learning-Sex and Being

[JOHN TORDAY]

To Eric, Gordana, Howard, regarding the role of sex in evolution, I would
like to point out that the role of gravity in evolution also entails sex in
the following way. In the study of the effect of microgravity on yeast, the
simplest eukaryote, they cannot 'bud' as form of asexual reproduction in
microgravitational conditions (Purevdorj-Gage B, Sheehan KB, Hyman LE.
Effects of low-shear modeled microgravity on cell function, gene
expression, and phenotype in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Appl Environ
Microbiol. 2006 Jul;72(7):4569-75). I am of the opinion that it is only in
addressing the evolutionary ontology as it corresponds with the
epistemology that an adaptive trait can be understood, as in the case of
sex as a means of adapting to an ever-changing environment. In the case of
yeast, budding is a means of epigenetic inheritance of environmental
factors relevant to its adaptation, and the force of gravity affects that
process. These authors also observed that the yeast could not conduct a
calcium flux under microgravity, rendering them unconscious 'zombies'. I
share this information with you in an attempt to find a final common
pathway for the process of evolution, ultimately referring to the elements
in the Cosmos as the latter's 'logic', as I expressed it in an accompanying
email earlier today....Best, John


On Sun, Nov 23, 2025 at 8:13 AM OARF <eric.werner at oarf.org> wrote:

> Hi Gordana,
>
> I was just responding to Howard’s more general point beyond bacteria.
> Eukaryotes have sex an inherently social process.  Sexuality is
> fundamentally a cooperative process, at many levels of organization. Even
> social at the level of the genome:  See my theory of meta-genome
> interactions between the sexes.  It is particularly clear in the case
> physically mixed sex organisms (this can be neurological as well).  See the
> theory applied to mixed sex organisms or gynandropmorphs:
> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5439__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!TY_hKHRoiwWd3Ambr8BKjgad2JfZxaOt-fzN3BxUiarg6UL1h1kZXxWG-Jn5VkAHk3SS0hBgPJynBL3XiP8$ 
> <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.5439__;!!D9dNQwwGXtA!XLF-Q-SqJ-AuvQ-dic9ptw82Ooe57dI4UX6ePa7CTWADakJMPTruAnfSd0yTCHhsfb-S3Rv04mCA4h3ClsatzQ4$>
>
> So the sexuality of being is inherently social.
>
> -Eric
>
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