(March 17, 2014 at 11:41 pm)Heywood Wrote:(March 17, 2014 at 10:55 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: 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.
It is as much a product of evolution as a bird's nest or a beaver's dam.
How do you think those came about?
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Science is not a subject, but a method.