[thfuran]

You're proposing that statistics is intelligent?

[hypertele-Xii]

You're proposing that evolution is statistics?

[thfuran]

Basically, yeah.

[8bitsrule]

Notable that the people who saw the first automatons argued whether they were alive.

[int_19h]

People also argued that animals are mere automatons, that all their observable behavior is basically scripted, and that humans shouldn't empathize with them on those grounds. That's how vivisection etc used to be justified since at least Descartes.