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Here is the prosecution’s clincher: | Here is the prosecution’s clincher: | ||
Aha, but the very imagination, creativity and narrative construction skills you point to ''are themselves the product of an algorithm'': the | Aha, but the very imagination, creativity and narrative construction skills you point to ''are themselves the product of an [[algorithm]]'': the [[algorithm]] encoded into [[evolution by natural selection]]. | ||
Here they might appeal to {{br|Darwin’s Dangerous Idea}}: it was [[evolution by natural selection]], after all, and ''only'' [[evolution by natural selection]] that as operated relentlessly, for 370 million years since the first legged fish crawled out of the primordial ooze and onto the shores of a new, terrestrial world. That single [[algorithm]] transformed those little flippy-finned mudsuckers into the highest type of sentient being yet known in this neighbourhood of the Galaxy: the [[ISDA ninja]]. And, to the best of our current thinking, all an [[ISDA ninja]] is doing is using her brain, and that is purely [[algorithm|algorithmic]], we see that human natural intelligence ''is'' an algorithmic process, ''created out of'' an algorithmic process. | Here they might appeal to {{br|Darwin’s Dangerous Idea}}: it was [[evolution by natural selection]], after all, and ''only'' [[evolution by natural selection]] that as operated relentlessly, for 370 million years since the first legged fish crawled out of the primordial ooze and onto the shores of a new, terrestrial world. That single [[algorithm]] transformed those little flippy-finned mudsuckers into the highest type of sentient being yet known in this neighbourhood of the Galaxy: the [[ISDA ninja]]. And, to the best of our current thinking, all an [[ISDA ninja]] is doing is using her brain, and that is purely [[algorithm|algorithmic]], we see that human natural intelligence ''is'' an algorithmic process, ''created out of'' an algorithmic process. |