People first became aware of the process of natural selection through the study of biology. In the mid-1800s Mendel experimented with peas to demonstrate the math behind genetics, while Darwin created the first diagram of a genetic tree of life in 1837. This video examines the basic principles of pool influence in genetic natural selection, including how sexual reproduction accelerates evolution, how different organisms affect each other through coevolution, how the processees of natural selection can be expanded to describe any pool of information, and how emergent traits lead to new pools of information--from sub-atomic particles to society.

We have already seen how our senses are tuned to our survival needs in the perception section, and in the natural selection video. The same survival needs apply to the way we process information--including the way we see ourselves in our mind's eye.  Our sense of who and what we are, our self esteem, how we see ourselves relative to others, and indeed our very sense of consciousness have also developed relative to our ability to survive. This video examines several examples of evolution over several species, it also explains how endogenous retroviruses have tagged our DNA with timestamps. Finally, it asks questions about conciousness beyond biology.