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Working the idea that evolution by natural selection as an algorithmic process is fundamentally over simplistic. In fact it is the non-algorithmic aspects of evolution that are key to positive development; the algorithmic steps are not instructions so much as observed outcomes of the clever bits. So for example a organism that is clever enough to adapt or avoid a change in the environment that kills other organisms has done something clever and unexpected and decidedly non-algorithmic. The algorithm bet is just to kill off those organisms who worked clever or adaptive in that way if you're step in your algorithm is the lucky or do something clever and imaginative then it's not really a very useful algorithm.