[nasamn777]

Now, you're going to say, "But, but, the robots were designed", and thereby miss the point. The group behavior (i.e. the characteristics of the overall system) were never designed. They just popped up. And that shows the power of self-organizing systems, which is only a small part of the engine of evolution.

This statement is a philosophical statement rather than a scientific one. Self-organizing systems are limited by the physics of the system and the boundary conditions. You are not going to see these systems writing out dictionaries! They are limited by the thermodynamic mechanism which constructs the "self-organizing" paterns.

[Joe Bonforte]

You are not going to see these systems writing out dictionaries!

Oh, given a few billion years, I wouldn't count on that.