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Evolution does not result in "winners". If a nuclear winter wipes out all humans, leaving only rodents to rule the Earth, I won't call the rodents "winners" or humans "losers". But the Q is still legit, and the answer depends on whether we think we live in a simulation or not.😊
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I would absolutely call the rodents the winners.
It is the old misunderstanding of the word "evolution", or "survival of the fittest..." Evolution has no intention, therefore results in no winners or losers. We have plenty of examples of some of the most fragile living things surviving on Earth longer than human species.
The rodents don’t have the cephalization required to understand winning/losing thus making this scenario moot
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Even if the rodents have the concept of winning and losing, it is still misleading, as long as we are discussing a process called "evolution". It has no concept of, nor the intent/goal of picking winners or losers.
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