I spent a long time playing with genetic programming systems a number of years ago, and started to get an intuition for evolution and how it "thinks." It can b

I spent a long time playing with genetic programming systems a number of years ago, and started to get an intuition for evolution and how it "thinks." It can be thought of as an alien form of intelligence. It "learns" and "thinks" but not in a human-like way. It does not design things the way we do. Argumentum ad Lovecraftium: http://lesswrong.com/lw/kr/an_alien_god/ http://lesswrong.com/lw/kr/an_alien_god/