[d23]

> More likely, as you say, it's just confirmation bias. It'd be surprising if the relevant patterns were simple enough for caterpillar and tree biology to pick up on but too complex for our climatologists and meteorologists to spot in decades of PhD students looking for theses. It's not impossible, though.

Right. Most caterpillars and trees I know have only had their PhDs for 5 years or so.

[dllthomas]

Well, I think it's unlikely, but not as unlikely as your quip (while amusing!) would imply. The computations would be performed on fuzzy caterpillar and apple tree hardware, but the correlations would have been discovered and tuned by natural selection over many iterations.

[lwhalen]

if there's anything this crowd can get behind, it's fuzzy logic and apple hardware.

[dllthomas]

Very nice! I had considered going the fuzzy logic route, but missed the other.