Let's say you're designing a device to move small portion of food from a plate to your mouth.
You have two choices. You can design a series of levers, pullies, and shovels that, when hooked up to a motor and power source, will cause a scooping mechanism to lower itself into the food, raise a small portion into the air, carry it towards your mouth, and tip forward.
Or, you can stick three prongs of metal onto the end of a longer piece of metal.
The second design, which we'll go ahead and call a "fork," is much simpler. The second design, which we'll call "a ridiculous Rude Goldberg contraption," is much more complex. Both will, quite effectively, move food to your mouth.
Which would you say is the more intelligent design?
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