Butler also wrote an interesting essay in 1863 called "Darwin Among the Machines" (the title which was later borrowed for a book by George Dyson). Butler was pr

Butler also wrote an interesting essay in 1863 called "Darwin Among the Machines" (the title which was later borrowed for a book by George Dyson). Butler was probably the first person to realize that natural selection could apply to machines as well as biological organisms https://web.archive.org/web/20060524131242/http://www.nzetc.org/tm/scholarly/tei-ButFir-t1-g1-t1-g1-t4-body.html https://web.archive.org/web/20060524131242/http://www.nzetc....