Of course there would be no problem about deliberately programming a computer to seem to behave in this ridiculous way (e.g. it could be programmed to go around muttering ‘Oh dear, what is the meaning of life? Why am I here? What on earth is this “self” that I feel?’). But why should natural selection bother to favour such a race of individuals, when surely the relentless free market of the jungle should have rooted out such useless nonsense long ago!
