Abstract
In fantastic novel «The Invincible" by S.Lem tells, how for investigations facts of the death of the Earth starship "Condor" on the planet "Regis III» on the same planet was sent another vessel of the same type, namely, «The Invincible". During the investigations came earthlings have found that the cause of death of "Condor" was an attack by his swarm of small, even tiny mechanical pseudo insects, which individually by themselves do not pose any threat, but united in swarms, the cloud worked out a sort of collective brain, which awakened memories of similar acts in the past, about the struggle with such opponents, the details of the battles.
This novel gives another line of research, "artificial societies": find the pat-terns of development of such companies.
Not only Lem, but some other science fiction writers thought about the evolu-tion of mechanical organisms.
Although evolutionary ideas in science today occupy a dominant position, but so far we do not have a common point of view on the direction of evolution. Single consideration of inorganic, organic, and social (I would add, and mechanical) evolution at the moment does not exist.
In these investigations, you can resort to computer simulation, "hide" a society in a computer program and its evolution or its individual elements.
Computer simulation of the evolution of mechanical devices will require a lot of time. For example, if the generation will be changed in the computer after 1 sec., the modeling of the "life" of hundreds of thousands of generations will take years (in the year 86 400 sec.), millions of generations, for decades. But the speed of computers is growing, and an increase in simulation speed is 10-100 times it (the simulation) will be acceptable. In fact, computer simulation of mechanical evo-lution can be much more effective than breeding and other work on breeding new varieties of plants and animals because of the high speed model, because in the experiments with the natural processes of living nature is very difficult, if not altogether impossible to accelerate. Under the above increasing of simulation speed, it can be used not only for stated above, in general, private and clear questions, but for the "elimination" fundamentally different populations of mechanical devices with fundamentally new unusual properties, which were not reasoned and no wonder the designers and planners (as in the above novel by Lem, when the course of evolution has led to the smallest pseudo insects, demonstrated extraordinary universality, inventiveness, tenacity and courage in the struggle for existence, if you can apply to the mechanisms of these human qual-ities). Perhaps, the best way here, to rely on the case - and wait for that moment when evolution will reach some condition without any conscious control rules of it.