[k4225] The alternative, then, to the religious theory of the source of values is that evolution endowed us with a moral sense, and we have expanded its circle of application over the course of history through reason (grasping the logical interchangeability of our interests and others’), knowledge (learning of the advantages of cooperation ...
[k1751] Kuhn and, to a greater degree, Feyerabend and Lakatos emphasize the elements of discontinuity in the evolution of science, the conceptual gulf between different theories.
[k3765] Like evolution, history disregards the happiness of individual organisms. [k3843] Even more critically, it accepts that the things that we think we know could be proven wrong as we gain more knowledge. [k4874] Conversely, the history of capitalism is unintelligible without taking science into account.
Evolution factors big in my current thinking about software. This wasn’t always the case. I was a big fan of the waterfall model in the 1980s until I saw people and relationships as the core issue. Programming-in-the-large requires a team of trust. Code evolves by integrating feedback. The more feedback, the better.
There, and not elsewhere, there are the typical phenomena associated with the flowing of time: life is possible, together with evolution, thought, and our awareness of time passing. There, the apples grow that produce our cider: time. That sweet juice that contains all the ambrosia and all the gall of life.
Evolution honed during the last billion years on earth. We’re just repurposing it to chop up bad genes (virii) or replace them in the human genome to fix problems, such as sickle cell anemia, with somatic cell edits, or someday, permanently with germline (inheritable) edits.