[motiw]

My personal realization that Evolution is the other “theory of everything”, with the exception of the laws of physics, evolutionary processes are shaping everything, including progress in science, economy, history, politics, ideas, social, emotions, religion, etc.

[gfodor]

I came to the same conclusion, and here's the result:

https://medium.com/@gfodor/evolutionary-simulation-theory-81...

[akimball]

One should not too quickly provide an exception for the laws of physics. The underlying axioms which make evolutionary dynamics deducible elsewhere do not obviously exclude physical law.

[josephpmay]

Have you read https://waitbutwhy.com/2019/08/story-of-us.html ?

[srl]

This might be it for me too -- although it feels wrong to call this "one idea", because to me it's really a broad family of related ideas. There's some Jordan Peterson video where he sums up a social aspect of evolution as (paraphrasing slightly) "the thing that rises to the top of hierarchies is necessarily that thing which is good at rising to the top of hierarchies". CGP-Grey has a video discussing the version of this idea that applies to... well, to ideas, I guess. It's weird, because at some level I already knew everything he said, but that video nevertheless made quite an impact on me.

It's not at all obvious to me that the laws of physics are an exception to this, by the way. Anthropic arguments are a sort of primitive form of evolutionary process (in the vein of "we're in this part of the universe because this is the part of the universe that could have us").