Evolution works on different principles than a mechanistic structure. Life functions as a process not as a machine; it is unfinished and in the process of being completed by participation. Thus we need to create new structures to fit the moment; when the needs change, so too do the structures. It is time to “de-engineer” our thinking, which means examining how mechanistic we have become – even in our treatment of one another. The principle of evolving life is the future, that is, the openness of life to more life and the infinite possibilities of life for life.
Ilia Delio. The Unbearable Wholeness of Being, p. 196-97.