A self-begetting passage in Daniel Dennett's From Bacteria to Bach and Back ("The Age of Post-Intelligent Design", p. 379), on the spontaneous order emerging from natural selection and generating memes, mental tools, theories, and explanations like this one. All in one paragraph! Watch me this cascade of cranes:
I have argued that the basic, bottom-up, clueless R&D [Research and Design] done by natural selection has gradually created cranes—labor-saving products that make design work more effective—which have opened up Design Space for further cranes, in an accelerating zoom into the age of intelligent design, where top-down, reflective, reason-formulating, systematic, foresighted R&D can flourish. This process has succeeded in changing the balance of selective forces that shape us and all other organisms and in creating highly predictive theories that retrospectively explain the very processes of their creation. This cascade of cranes is not a miracle, not a gift from God, but a natural product of the fundamental evolutionary process, along with the other fruits of the Tree of Life.
This should go to Retrospection:
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