An AI Ancestor in my Compost Bin

Let’s Play A GameGuess who this is — or, rather, guess who they are, since the pronouns are they/them, and have been earned honestly.They have a plate in their back, like Cousin Eddie’s¹ head in National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. Their food passes through the middle of their brain. They have one foot and no hands. Their teeth arrive by way of a conveyor belt. They have one lung and one kidney. They can regrow their eyes. They have no skeleton. They learn from a single bad meal and never forget it. They live in many places, including southern Ontario. Have you guessed yet?No, it’s not A.I., though I can see why you might go there.I recently became acquainted with these fellow earthlings right here in my southern Ontario backyard, in a November so warm that you could say it was mutton dressed as lamb. There were two of them, one large and one small. I had never seen their like before, and I was enchanted: The leopard spots scattered across their shoulders, the dark bands running…

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