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Originally Posted by legion
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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Are we talking about computers now, or machines? Obviously a computer cannot replicate, but it can control a machine, which can. Robots building robots building robots. You will get glitches, and some of them might be environmentally stronger.
The problem is that you'd need a massive amount of energy and resources, and TIME to run through enough iterations to get any changes.
I mean, it's not a complexity issue, virii and RNA replicate, and they are simpler than your calculator (fewer parts, fewer interactions, fewer instructions).