> Evolution does care if something is useful, if it aids in reproduction. Evolution is an abstraction subsuming other mechanisms. It doesn’t care about usefuln

> Evolution does care if something is useful, if it aids in reproduction. Evolution is an abstraction subsuming other mechanisms. It doesn’t care about usefulness. That’s a finalist bias. Individuals reproduce or they don’t. The rest of your post is pure conjecture. You can’t work backward saying: this thing is useful therefore it’s evolved. That doesn’t make sense especially for complex behaviour.