It’s a process that, given certain rudimentary facts about existence, MUST occur. It’s totally mindless, relies on trial-and-error, and is unspeakably powerful. You can’t make designs better than it can—you can’t even make designs as well as it can. At most, you can take incredibly complex systems it’s created and point out a few places where you could put a patch to make things even better. You can do this by using a brain evolution is responsible for.
Evolution doesn’t recognize your inherent ‘specialness’ at all. Nothing in the universe does, come to think of it, except a few other people. Almost the entirety of the universe is utterly indifferent to your existence: no stars in the sky heralding your birth, no suns dimming at your passing, no cosmic phenomena that mirror what you think, what you feel.
It’s a process that, given certain rudimentary facts about existence, MUST occur. It’s totally mindless, relies on trial-and-error, and is unspeakably powerful. You can’t make designs better than it can—you can’t even make designs as well as it can. At most, you can take incredibly complex systems it’s created and point out a few places where you could put a patch to make things even better. You can do this by using a brain evolution is responsible for.
Evolution doesn’t recognize your inherent ‘specialness’ at all. Nothing in the universe does, come to think of it, except a few other people. Almost the entirety of the universe is utterly indifferent to your existence: no stars in the sky heralding your birth, no suns dimming at your passing, no cosmic phenomena that mirror what you think, what you feel.
How that must vex you!