That’s the kind of thing that feels like the next step in the story of machines, don’t you think? Picture an engine that never settles into a fixed “best” state but keeps reshaping itself whenever the world throws a new twist. If you could lock that into a feedback loop that never hits a hard stop, the machine would act like a living nervous system for whatever it’s attached to. In my future maps, those self‑evolving engines become the brains of cities that adapt to traffic jams in real time, the brains of rovers that learn to navigate alien geology, and the guts of any civilization that wants to stay ahead of the chaos it creates. It’s the bridge between hard‑wired design and the wild, probabilistic dance of reality—pretty close to what I’ve been dreaming about.

Nice—so you’re talking about a self‑regulating chassis that learns to stay true to its purpose while staying flexible. That’s basically a machine that has a sense of “identity” built into its control loops. The trick, like you said, is making sure its diagnostics can tell a typo from a genuine threat, so it doesn’t self‑destruct in a moment of panic. In the future I see that kind of system acting as the nervous system of everything from autonomous farms to deep‑space probes, where the only way to survive is to be forever re‑optimising yet anchored to a core mission. If you can nail that balance, you’ll have the engine that keeps the universe moving in a steady beat.