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What is the goal of evolution? Does evolution even have a goal? The theory of evolution, which explores and explains the development of organisms from primitive single-celled organisms all the way up to modern humans is indeed fascinating. Darwin, Mayr, Mendel, and other scholars explain past events and the principles of evolution very convincingly, but where does this journey ultimately lead?
In overly simplified terms: Evolution produces as many specimens as possible through mutation and recombination, and selects the fittest amongst them, that is, those that best cope with reality. This in turn results in a competition for the transmission of one’s own genes.What is the goal of evolution? Does evolution even have a goal? The theory of evolution, which explores and explains the development of organisms from primitive single-celled organisms all the way up to modern humans is indeed fascinating. Darwin, Mayr, Mendel, and other scholars explain past events and the principles of evolution very convincingly, but where does this journey ultimately lead?
In overly simplified terms: Evolution produces as many specimens as possible through mutation and recombination, and selects the fittest amongst them, that is, those that best cope with reality. This in turn results in a competition for the transmission of one’s own genes.

Life Engineering aims to understand and shape people’s lives in a world with machine intelligence. The biological evolution of the next 100 years is not relevant; it is all about socio-technical evolution. According to authors such as Spencer, Damasio, or Tegmark, sociotechnical evolution deals on one hand with societal developments such as democracy, environmental protection, or war, and on the other hand with technological innovations, primarily artificial intelligence, but also energy and genetic technology.
Metaphorically speaking, the principles of biological evolution can also be applied to socio-technical evolution. Humans create societal and technical constructs, which result from human creativity which is akin to mutation and the combination of existing technologies, analogous to recombination.
The constructs that are most likely to survive are those that are most able to adapt to reality. These include, for example, sports clubs that consistently fulfill a societal need, drills capable of penetrating concrete, enterprise software capable of managing diverse organizational structures, and navigation software that best caters to the driver’s needs. Inferior solutions fade away, while superior ones form the basis for further development. However, superior doesn’t always mean the best solution but rather the one that is most dominant in the market.
The result of socio-technical evolution is the entire human culture, knowledge in the form of texts, images, rules, algorithms and organisations and the ability to apply this knowledge, for example to build a smartphone. Evolution has, for over four billion years, continuously produced increasingly complex organisms and cultures. But what lies ahead? What is the goal of evolution? Is it human happiness or perhaps the advancement of intelligence independent of humans? Life Engineering aims to understand socio-technical evolution and incorporate human needs into it.
This objectification of biological and, above all, socio-technical evolution is often criticised as a cold overly simplified mechanical view of the world that ignores spirituality. Therefore the following questions are directed at you:
🤔 Questions:
• What is the goal of evolution?
• Is humankind the goal or an intermediate stage of evolution?
• Is there a creator who set all of evolution into motion?
• What will the natural sciences never be able to explain?
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