We are witnessing an “automatic” (algorithmic) paring away of the nonfunctional, crowded out by the functional. And by the time we get to a reproducing bacterium, there is functional virtuosity galore. In other words, there are reasons why the parts are shaped and ordered as they are. We can reverse engineer any reproducing entity, determining its good and its bad, and saying why it is good or bad. This is the birth of reasons,
