Memory Stash

The following are my crazy theories about cancer. These are not based in fact. These are the result of an overactive imagination. What if the body is a learning algorithm? Think about the principles of machine learning. We train a machine with data, teach it to differentiate between two different kinds of things (binary classification). The machine only knows the data and the training. It chooses A or B depending on what its training says. Similarly, what if our body or its genome is still learning. Think about it. Evolutionary biology says that the genotype mutates and what we observe is the phenotype. Every human is a data point. Humans don’t eat raw meat. The appendix is deemed a vestigial organ. Soon we have more and more humans born without appendices. Now consider this. Humans live longer now, they take medicine and get surgery to extend their lifespan. What if the body has detected our fight to survive? What if cancer cells have mutations that allow them to survive because we tr...