“Things seem to be going well here,” Belisarius said. “Yes. The batches of autonomous robots are at generation six, and are evolving quite nicely.” “You didn’t want to design them directly? This is going to take longer.” “I’m a craftsman, Mister Arjona, not a hack. Iterative design by the mutation of replicating units is better. Emerging complexity and self-assembly are too useful not to exploit. And it’s the only way to see if I could evolve robotic species with souls.” “What?” “I admit, it’s a long shot, but while I’m evolving autonomous robots for one reason, why not test whether I can give
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