> and optimized just to make more of themselves, not to be understood There is also pressure for it to avoid outputs such are too predictable, as part of a con

> and optimized just to make more of themselves, not to be understood There is also pressure for it to avoid outputs such are too predictable, as part of a constant arms race against predators and same-species competitors. (For example, how many predators are instinctively key to certain prey behaviors, and when you violate their expectations they might back off.) That goal doesn't guarantee that the mechanics themselves will be obfuscated, but it does trend in a similar direction.