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In article <3f9flm$o73@news.u.washington.edu>, forbis@cac.washington.edu (Gary
Forbis ) writes:
|> {a lot of text deleted]
|> 
|> I'd be very happy to accept the argument if it weren't for the fact that
|> while brains evolved our machines were designed.  
|> 

But our machines evolved too! Machines are physical reflexes of our ideas. And
our ideas, as Richard Dawkins established, are memes, gene-like entities evolving
in our brains, guided by the same laws of selection, mutation, crossover as that
living beings are guided by. (And, proofing these arguments, we can easyly see
evidences of machine evolution: take a Ford T and a Ferrari Testarrosa, or the
ENIAC and a Cray, for example. :-)

Lucio

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Lucio de Souza Coelho
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Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
"Mais tanto faz um tanto faz no tanto faz que tanto faz tantos fazes tanto
                       fazendo"
