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Maybe I have missed it but I don’t know why there is not much talk about simulating evolution at high speed: brains evolved over millions of years to adapt to the environment and ensure survival. So instead of trying to understand and reproduce brain structures, we instead simulate evolution of embodied agents ultra high speed and see if some paths lead to brains comparable to today’s organisms.
For a fun exploration of this, see the short story “Crystal Nights”, by Greg Egan:
https://www.gregegan.net/MISC/CRYSTAL/Crystal.html