Also, the reductionist thinking works well and fits inutitively for those areas which are of a scale that are amenable to our senses - easy measurement and accessible understanding being two benefits. The dilemna in these systems is worse than that. BUT The system can optimise for itself for both current and future. However, there is a very important missing here. Particularly when these are embodied in language systems, and the agents have access to the language, can other possibilities emerge.
Intelligence is the underlying organisational principle of the universe.