[tortoise]

"Automata" are intelligently designed programs, not self-formed naturally. Sure, an intelligent designer can build a computer program to write other programs via various methodologies, but that's not "natural" and unaided, rather - that's directed.

Automata is irrelevant, though my example was still valid. Replace "automata" with "random noise source" and it is just as true.

[Southack]

"Automata is irrelevant, though my example was still valid. Replace "automata" with "random noise source" and it is just as true."

Nonsense. You can show no example of random noise ever creating any useful program, much less any software of even "pedestrian" complexity.