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(Comment on early Cnidarians paralleling this comic's structure, with a reference to my published paper about a possible trigger for the Cambrian Explosion.)
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Early Cnidarians:
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"I'm going to be the biggest quilt-shaped bag of cells I can be!"
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"I'm going to evolve special stinging cells!"
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"I'm going to use [https://jetpress.org/v20/phoenix.htm epigenetics to lock my cells into lifelong somatic roles], and then they can use synaptic learning in their newly stable neural nets to develop lifelong responses from their environment, and eventually one of my descendants will invent machines that they can publish webcomics on!" [[User:Cphoenix|Cphoenix]] ([[User talk:Cphoenix|talk]]) 04:37, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

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Edit conflict on the transcript. Whoops! —megan talk contribs 00:45, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

there is a typo in title text, i wonder if it will be corrected 2A02:A31A:E2CD:5300:5450:CAAA:3F64:5EE5 01:45, 27 January 2026 (UTC)

First - 45.178.1.151 01:08, 28 January 2025 (UTC)

Early Cnidarians:

"I'm going to be the biggest quilt-shaped bag of cells I can be!"

"I'm going to evolve special stinging cells!"

"I'm going to use epigenetics to lock my cells into lifelong somatic roles, and then they can use synaptic learning in their newly stable neural nets to develop lifelong responses from their environment, and eventually one of my descendants will invent machines that they can publish webcomics on!" Cphoenix (talk) 04:37, 27 January 2026 (UTC)