How it can be done

I'm no genius and I'm not going to say what I'm about to say is necessarily original, I'm sure somebody else has thought of this, nor do I say it is easy.

We are approaching the days where we can explain the physics around us pretty well, not perfect but we are getting there. If we were to get good enough that we could make an environment virtually, that would react the same or near same, we could replicate the evolution of this planet. Given we did that (not simple) we could end up with things as intelligent as we are, then take their code and modify it (again not easy) we could make our own super smart computer/person.

Of course for the current time that is not acceptable, to replicate the physics of an entire world would be very hard and require a lot of processing power, i believe more than we have, considering each and every single proton would need to be workiing the way it really does.

So maybe there is some sort of alternative? some evolving program that is not as complicated to start out. set the program to have being who have limits and their ultimate goal is to survive and reproduce, or simply have an algorithm to pick the 'best' solution and continue evolutions until the ultimate problem is solved.

Using this method could mean that something could be created that we might not be able to make ourselves if we turn out not to be smart enough as a species to do it the intellectual way. However, we could still combine methods so that we dont have to wait for the Higg's boson (if it truly does turn out to exist), and other discoveries, and the computer technology to take care of the computing power. So I would think the logical plan would be trying to mix these methods one way or another to get a result that works effectively. That's my current goal.