[jwalsh07]

The core argument isn't a quibble about diodes and transisitors, it's whether a useful circuit can be designed by an evolutionary process.

Computers are very good at iteration given a problem, a desired solution, a dbase and a good programmer.

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Computers are very good at iteration given a problem, a desired solution, a dbase and a good programmer.

Yup, and given a new not too hostile environment, a selection for better addapted members of a population, and a few ten's of thousands of generations, evolution/natural selection will result in a new species...