Assuming a mechanistic worldview, how could our world not have many grievous problems? We clawed our way from the mud and for all our cleverness, we are still t

Assuming a mechanistic worldview, how could our world not have many grievous problems? We clawed our way from the mud and for all our cleverness, we are still the product of a messy and imprecise evolutionary process. ‘Good enough’ is what results, not perfection. Genes have errors, leading to cancer and mental illness. We war over resources and ideologies because we are running software that derives from vicious apes.