But pumped up to the density required for a robot, circuit strangeness becomes indelible. It cannot appear any other way. Natural selection isn't the cause of organisms. Genes don't cause organisms. There are no causes of organisms.
Organisms are self-causing agencies.
Self, therefore, is an auto-conspired form. It emerges to transcend itself, just as a long snake swallowing its own tail becomes Uroborus, the mythical loop. The Uroborus, according to C. G. Jung, is one of those resonant projections of the human soul that cluster around timeless forms. The ring of snake consuming its own tail first appeared as art adorning Egyptian statuary. A constellation of these attracting, strange nodes form the visual vocabulary of art, literature, and some types of therapy.