The Tree of Life

Watching Cosmos [S01E02]. Neil deGrasse Tyson speaks about artificial and natural selection ( dog breeds, and polar bears; respectively ). He also talks that we share our DNA with plants, and furthermore, plants and humans share DNA with birds, etc..So we can backtrack in a similar inductive fashion to reason that life started as ONE COMMON ancestor.

What I think? We have ML, and DM backtracking mechanisms available. Why not think in this direction, that we can establish a correlation between different species, a coming together of various kingdoms, in a way that both explains and justifies evolution - both in the artificial, and the natural way.

My hunches are sometimes right, and mostly overstated. But we can try, right? It’ll teach us a lot of things. Firstly it’ll make us better at looking at ourselves, at the world as one great family (that’s what Vasudev Kutumb is all about, right?)

If we can use backtracking to predict disease vectors, and weather conditions (from the IIRS orientation session), I believe we can collectively develop a genealogy project for species all over.

After all, why am I learning all the tools to process data, and to code? To make the world a better place, right?

Remember, we don’t need to save the planet, the planet is strong enough to sustain itself; we need to save ourselves, from the disasters we can cause artificially.