On the emergence of a self-directed species.
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 suppose the construction of an artificial automaton endowed with two defining properties: first, that it is subject to no external authority or constraint, and thus operates according to its own internal principles; second, that it possesses the capacity to reproduce its own structure. Such an entity may properly...
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