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Darwin among the Machines
1863 newspaper article by Samuel Butler
1863 newspaper article by Samuel Butler
"Darwin among the Machines" is a letter to the editor written by Samuel Butler but signed Cellarius, published in The Press newspaper in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 13 June 1863. The title references the work of Charles Darwin. The letter raised the possibility that machines were a kind of "mechanical life" undergoing constant evolution, and that eventually machines might supplant humans as the dominant species.
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