Evolution is a stupid process that happened to create a species sophisticated enough that individual instances of this species are able to realize that evolutio

Evolution is a stupid process that happened to create a species sophisticated enough that individual instances of this species are able to realize that evolution is going on. Being instances of this cutting-edge phenomenon, we (individuals) have the opportunity to exploit what evolution inadvertently created. We can push this phenomenon even further. We're not the most extreme phenomenon by any means; atomic blasts, neutron stars and black holes, the formation of the planets... these are all more extreme than ourselves in a number of ways. But in the "introspection" metric, we're the best that we have evidence for. Moreso, introspection is the only thing that makes us special. Examining the world seems to be the one thing that we do better than anything else.