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 Accepting for a moment that the [[evolution by natural selection]] algorithm ''can'' generate intelligence, consider how staggeringly ''slow'', ''destructive'' and ''wasteful'' it is.
+===The century of the self===
+Hofstadter is at his best when when he addresses the reflexivity of human consciousness — the magic that emerges courtesy of the strange loop where are the human perceives itself inside the universe, and where a working narrative obliges one to allow for, to explain, ones own causal impact. This sets off an infinite loop which creates magical artifacts by itself.
+In Roland Ennos’ recent book {{be|The Wood Age}} he gives a better example:
+{{Quote|Early apes, manoeuvering through the treetops, developed a concept of self, because they realised their bodies changed the world around them by bending the branches they stood on.}}
+The only way you can explain the movement of those branches is by reference to your own presence. It is hard to see a dematerialized computer operating in a virtual space, having to solve that same problem, other than at the quantum level (it need hardly be said that quantum elements are not the same as machine consciousness - that would be a reductionism too far.
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