Samuel Butler · 1865
Lucubratio Ebria
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Can machines undergo a process of evolution even when humans build and reproduce them?No. humans evolve through machines. Treats machines as extra-corporeal limbs, so that it is humans who evolve by adding machines to themselves, not machines who evolve as a rival species.
The Press, 29 July 1865 (Britannica, Tim Taylor 'Rise of the Self-Replicators'). Reprinted in A First Year in Canterbury Settlement with Other Early Essays (1914); no full-text link opened.