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Similar to DNA that has evolved to create living organisms. Each evolutionary step was selected because it worked, but the result is in no way optimized to be u
by charlieflowers 9y ago
Similar to DNA that has evolved to create living organisms. Each evolutionary step was selected because it worked, but the result is in no way optimized to be understood by human brains.
There's a hierarchy of systems:
* non-working, random, chaotic
* working, but not understood/understandable
* working, and clearly understood by at least 1 human brain
Clearly, each step in the hierarchy is less primitive than its predecessors. Also, since human brains are the greatest intelligence we know of, the 3rd bullet point seems like the pinnacle.
- shady-lady 9y ago> Each evolutionary step was selected because it worked not really. selected is the wrong word - survived is more appropriate. evolution isn't a set of preordained occurrences. it's a random mutation which happened to survive - this can be due to many reasons (only one of which is "it worked")
- inimino 9y ago> selected is the wrong word It’s literally in the name “natural selection”. Survival is selection.
- shady-lady 9y agoNo.
- SolaceQuantum 9y agoSelection in the evolutionary biology sense is not with the connotations of the common word. Selection is considered as a pressure on a population, and not a picking and choosing of individuals exactly, merely the picking off of individuals that for some reason or another cannot breed.