(March 17, 2014 at 10:55 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote:(March 17, 2014 at 10:52 pm)Heywood Wrote: Intelligence doesn't appear to exclusively originate via evolution(see IBM's Watson).
Watson is an extension of our phenotype and is indeed (indirectly) the product of evolution by way of natural selection.
I wouldn't call it a product of evolution. I would say Watson is another link in an emergent chain that includes us.