Consider the category of spandrel. A spandrel is something that results from the process of evolution, but itself carries no evolutionary benefit, and may even carry a detriment. Nipples are sometimes an adaptation (when present in women) but sometimes a spandrel (when present in men). Similarly, morality is sometimes adaptive and sometimes a spandrel.
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Now, we have the prospect of stopping natural selection forever and designing our own future. The spandrel has the possibility of devouring natural selection – the optimizing God that created it. Designing societies, redesigning ourselves biologically, augmenting ourselves, defeating death and illness, and creating a world in which our highest values – truth, beauty, and the good – the ones so often thwarted by natural selection and necessity, reign. Both technological, ethical, and political achievements and revolutions will be necessary for this, but if we succeed, the spandrel will emerge as the new governing principle of our bit of the universe.
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