Bridger on Nostr: Dismissing evolution is asinine. As you said, every process, be it human innovation ...

Dismissing evolution is asinine. As you said, every process, be it human innovation or natural evolution, is about adaptation, trial and error; nothing is stagnant.

Now there’s one thing I disagree with. Evolution and innovation are somewhat fundamentally different. Innovation is a thought out process designed to achieve some desired outcome; evolution does not have any desired outcome (besides survival). There are tons of examples of redundant or inefficient “solutions” in evolution, since the evolutionary process is that of random mutations — if it works it works. In innovation you want to be as efficient and cost effective as possible, evolution does not care (it can’t care, it’s just an autonomous process).