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Evolution is an optimization algorithm and something as complex as the brain could have only been partially optimized in the relatively short time its been around.

If it had been optimised to a global optima would that mean we wouldn't bother arguing about whether bacteria are better than humans on an internet headphone forum?

Only the simplest processes in living organisms, interacellular chemical processes, are highly optimized

I'm sorry but just because bacteria are optimised for eating poo does not mean that they are better than us. Would you say that something like a hinge is better than us because it is perfectly optimised for its job?

We are extremely fragile and not very good at inhospitable environments or very drastic environmental changes. We are also completely reliant, as is the rest of the biosphere, on bacteria to complete the nitrogen cycle, and algae for the majority of the photosynthetic oxygen recovery. Considering how poorly we are doing in attempts to control the environment, and how little attention space gets (and is likely to get in the future, with the exception of weaponization issues), it's extremely, unrealistically optimistic to think humanity will survive another thousand years, whereas the bacteria will remain until the sun runs out of fusion fuel.

I do agree with most of this, I do believe that scientific advances will mean we will survive in the long term or at least our mechanical descendants