No matter which variant of your personality might be uppermost in your consciousness, that version will feel as though it ...

but does evolution act on non-living materials as well? In a paper, titled "Competitive exclusion among self-replicating molecules curtails the tendency of chemistry to diversify" published in ...

To name a few: the possible operation of self-organising principles; how the evolution of an organism can depend on its innovative behaviour; and "top-down causation" through flow of information ...