Ever since we discovered how our tools worked, we have been using
them to help us adapt to our environment. To modify it in ways that
helped us survive within it.
It was not long before we also realised, that one way to modify the
environment, was to copy it. The human mind has searched for a way to
copy itself.
All the way back to ancient China where according to legend, the
Emperor had once been shown how an engineer imagined a series of levers
and pulleys would create the inner workings of a mechanical worker.”
Since it sees itself as it “senses,” this is usually the form of an
entire human body.
The Singularity Effect 