Perspectives on Evolution

[Gawdzilla Sama]

That's right.  You can see people as agents struggling to reproduce, or you can see both the DNA and a person's actions as an expression of a chain of events across a billion years of organic interactions with the environment-- a kind of environmental time machine in a sense, with the human agent being something like a Skinnerian black box: for all our drama and our narratives, we are actually just a gazillion interactions over those billion years being weighed all the time.

I wonder what the ultimate output of evolution might be, in say another 10 billions years.  Will life end up doing battle with entropy, creating a kind of homeostatic mechanism which fights off heat death itself?

/free association caused by rabbit-hole

Maybe, but evolution doesn't have a goal, so that would be pure happenstance.