It sounds like @fpgaminer is saying that when humans created something similar (the neural nets of the 90's) it had issues (local maxima) until we increased the

It sounds like @fpgaminer is saying that when humans created something similar (the neural nets of the 90's) it had issues (local maxima) until we increased the complexity (the number of variables that the system could/did respond to) in a way that started approaching the complexity of evolution.