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To clarify, many humans fail to maximise their own inclusive fitnesses - largely because they are malfunctioning - with many of the most common malfunctions being caused by parasites - and the most common parasites being responsible for memetic hijacking. Humans and the ecosystems they are part of really do maximise entropy (subject to constraints) - or at least the MEP is a deep and powerful explanatory principle - when it comes to CAS and living systems.