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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.
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The rodents don’t have the cephalization required to understand winning/losing thus making this scenario moot
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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Winners live and losers die out, that's just as simple as that. Evolution.
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You do realize we were the rodents once right? I know who won the last extinction, and I wasn’t even there.
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Yeah - at the time our ancestral species had no concept of winning/losing. They just existed/survived
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You don’t need to know that you are a winner in order to be a winner. A biological winner is just the one who is able to pass on his genes to the next generation. Since rodents would % make up a far bigger part of 🌍 pop, they definitely are winners in that scenario
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