And not a single one of these machines, NOT ONE, can be said to have anything resembling “an intent” or “a purpose” or “self awareness”!
Consider a cold blooded reptile (at sometime in the past) deciding to grow feathers..
Which goes against the “Law of Increasing Entropy” meaning everything runs down...
Or when a gene structure is close to perfect it does not change(much)... except by extinction.. or staying the same..
i.e. turtles, sharks, snakes, etc..
Evolving into a totally different machine has not been seen..
It seems to be a fantasy... like other “liberal” fantasy’s like socialism.. democracy etc....
You know....... Scientific-Fiction.. i.e. perpetual motion...
The Rube Goldberg Intelligentsia.. Carnival Barker Whiz kids..
Evolution by itself does not bother me. We seem to have a firm understanding that mutations to DNA do happen, and that those mutations can be passed on to subsequent generations.
It may/may not be true that we see new forms emerging. But, as an example, we have all heard about bacteria “inventing????” new and better resistance to antibiotics.
What intrigues me the most is the “animus”. For lack of a better word, the “consciousness”.
The ghost in the machine.
How can that be? Nothing in the hard sciences (not even biology itself!) explains it.