Recipes for Co-evolution

1.     Change your microflora by consuming alternative populations of microbial communities: ferment cider and drink it, for instance. When your stomach gets upset, drink small quantities each day until equilibrium is reached, then start again. Make a body b&b for microorganisms.

2.     Contract some viral or bacterial illness; allow your immune system to adapt and destroy it; contract a mutated version of the illness a couple weeks later.

3.     Develop a new method of gathering fruits and nuts that undermine the squirrels’ strategies. Allow them to develop other strategies and then undermine those as well.

4.     Start an email debate with somebody and never stop responding to them.

5.     Acquire a new symbiot and allow it to lose all of its redundant, unnecessary genetic material while it potentially gains new material that may benefit you or it.

6.     Live with a colony of insects (bees, ants, wasps, etc) as a type of symbiot or ‘pet’. Allow it to perform some function for you (clean your floor, pollinate your plants, make honey, edible larvae, etc.) while you develop strategies to coexist with it so that you don’t get bit in your sleep, or stung, or your food isn’t stolen…

7.     Allow two colonies to live together in your space. Allow them to develop different functions and utilize different resources accordingly. Maybe create new resources.

8.     Inoculate the webs of your toes with the most desirable culture of yeast such that any cider or wine you stomp will be the best in the land. Soak feet in the best bath of these ciders to continue to develop the best community.

9.     Inoculate your mouth with the best culture of yeast such that any apples or grapes or fruit you chew and spit out will turn into the best alcoholic beverage in the land. Drink the best batches in order to propagate the best culture.

10. Illegally poach wild game from a protected park (so that there are no influences other than yourself). Use one strategy, allow animals to develop or learn their own strategies for avoidance, and then develop a new one again.