[UA] Re: The Metal Eaters (was Steampunk)

[Nick Wedig]

>But anyway, I love the idea of a Clockworker creating devices simply for the 
>pleasure of watching their "decendants" evolve. 

I'd expect people to do it eventually, as you have folks in real life making self-replicating computer programs and (more recently) robots.  It's just much easier with Mechanomancy.

> And you'd have to figure 
>that somehow, somewhere down the line, you'd end up with some of them 
>sentient.  maybe even with their own version of the Clergy....

Intelligence may take a long time to develop or might not at all.  It took us hundreds of millions of years, and even if you account for the things reproducing in hours instead of years, you still have a long time before you should expect civilizations among the things.  It'd be easier to build an intelligent machine from scratch, in this case, than to evolve one.

Mr. Teapot
built from scratch

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