Denny Bales

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Turing himself is one of the twigs on the Tree of Life, and his artifacts, concrete and abstract, are indirectly products of the blind Darwinian processes in the same way spider webs and beaver dams are, so there is no radical discontinuity, no need for a skyhook, to get us from spiders and beaver dams to Turing and Turing machines.
From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds
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