>the brain builds its internal structure all by itself >when was a computer able to evolve from a bunch of transistors laying on the table These two statement

>the brain builds its internal structure all by itself >when was a computer able to evolve from a bunch of transistors laying on the table These two statements are not really connected. Brain builds its internal structure in a sense, it changes with learning for example. But brain did not evolve by itself. It's all thanks to the force of evolution. So it boils down to the question: "Can we do better than evolution?", so we need to understand what evolution is. It's just random mutations that make organism better than it was before. If these random mutations make it worse, organism gets lower chances of survival and usually just dies. Essentially, evolution is a method of design by brute force. And brute force works, if you have a lot of time, but it's common sense that intelligently designed algorithm can do a lot better. So we can answer the question now with "Yes, most likely we can do better."