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Originally Posted by Pazuzu View Post
2) Machines can make copies of themselves, and they can mutate. Whether those mutations will move towards a higher level of complexity, who knows.
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.
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