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Originally Posted by Pazuzu
2) Machines can make copies of themselves, and they can mutate. Whether those mutations will move towards a higher level of complexity, who knows.
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Really?
I've got several computers and I've never seen little ones running around the house...
Things written in binary seem to be even more sensitive than DNA. A single misplaced byte general causes everything to stop working. I've never seen a group of corrupted bytes ever produce results that don't also end in failure, let alone produce some useful adaptation.