What's interesting is if you frame evolution as a system for producing and propagating increasingly efficient (given a context or state) behaviors through time (such that "living things" can amass more energy or manipulate their environment more), and take into account what makes humans unique, it's really eye opening as to the nature of intelligence, learning, emotions, and really just why we are the way we are. It seems the things that make humanity unique is how extremely efficient we are at propagating knowledge through time via means that are not merely genetic, yet our brains are still fundamentally limited by the chemical processes that make them up. What would happen if we were able to find a way to create a self-regulating, autofeedback system that made decisions at the speed of, say, electricity (nearly c)