> In 1863, just four years after Darwin's *Origin of Species* was published, novelist Samuel Butler predicted that, one day, machines would evolve into a new form of life. "We are ourselves creating our own successors," he wrote. "Man will become to the machine what the horse and dog are to man.... The time will come when the machines will hold the real supremacy over the world and tis inhabitants."^[Lent, Jeremy R. The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2017.]