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Letter: Intelligent life

Published 6 August 2014

From Phil Smith

Nathaniel Hellerstein claims that “by definition we cannot think up programs superior to our own best thinking” (26 July, p 31).

But surely our very existence demonstrates that intelligence does not have to be brought into being by a superior intelligence.

Of course some believe this is what happened, but if so, how did that being come into existence?
Maidenhead, Berkshire, UK

Issue no. 2981 published 9 August 2014

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