Evolution by Natural Selection

'No genuine artificial evolution has ever been simulated,' he writes. 'I would like to see an experiment of a slightly different kind, where i replace its existing programm ini existing macro in its existing micro processes by random numbers.' He then runs simulations of that mutating system in the usual way, as many as you like. If the robot ever walks better than it did originally, then i am mistaken. If it continues to improve after that, that i am very much mistaken. The purpose of all that is to eliminate the possibility that human knowledge is being fed into the design of the system and that its reach is being mistaken for the product of evolution"