It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.
From Kevin Kelly
Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
In a broad systems sense, an organism's environment is indistinguishable from the organism itself.
But in fact, when you try to model that on a computer you find that because of the very structure of matter and of the chemical bonds that are the basis of every organism, evolution is not random at all. It will tend to follow certain paths.
This is actually a very important principle that science is learning about large systems like evolution and that futurists are learning about anticipating human society: just because a future scenario is plausible doesn't mean we can get there from here.
It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.
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