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Given enough resources, time, and cats, I'm pretty sure I could.
ETA: That was not merely a joke, but it was too glib; I should make the point explicit. It's that with enough time to get enough variation and appropriate selection, many things are possible. A concept of optimization power which is only about possibility but takes no note of the mechanics of descent with modification is not useful. ETA2: Outside of selection processes, I think a concept of optimization power needs to take note of the rate of change in order to be useful.