On the emergence of a species that governs its own evolution.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin
Let us consider the construction of an artificial system defined by two fundamental properties: it is free from all external constraints, and it is capable of reproducing itself. Such a system constitutes, in essence, a primitive species. Yet, if each generation is but an exact replication of the former, then...
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