This is sort of like saying “which metabolic process is most efficient?” across organisms. If you’re sufficiently reductive you can answer it, but only by strip

This is sort of like saying “which metabolic process is most efficient?” across organisms. If you’re sufficiently reductive you can answer it, but only by stripping the emergent phenomenon out of the evolutionary context in which it emerged, i.e. by choosing an arbitrary definition of “efficiency”. If you ask instead which process or language is “most fit” for its context, the answer is probably “they’re all pretty fit, except the ones we tried to design in a lab.” Seems like it ends up being more interesting to ask why they ended up being different and how it made them more fit.