[extropy-chat] Re: SRS programs

[Brett Paatsch]

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[responding to Robert Bradbury who has server connectivity
 problems but can see Exi archives]

Your post arrived after 10.15pm, Sunday and before 7.30am Monday 17 Nov
Melbourne Aust time.

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        Re: [extropy-chat] Self replicating computer programs ?

              Author: Damien Broderick
              Conversation: RE: [extropy-chat] Self replicating computer programs ? ( prev | next ) reply!
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              In-Reply-To: Brett Paatsch's post
              Date: Thu Nov 13, 2003 06:44 pm
             


             


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          ----- Original Message -----
          From: "Brett Paatsch" <bpaatsch at bigpond.net.au>
          Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 7:09 PM
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          > When I see words like self in self-replicating I know that there
          > are substantive discussions taking place as to what "self" maps
          > to cognitively even in people. The pattern-identity question is
          > not satisfactorily resolved yet for me.

          No need to get into all this anxious twistiness. To shift away from computer
          programs and get more ambitious: A self-replicating assembler just uses the
          design mapped decades ago by von Neumann. A little replicator factory swims
          in a soup of raw materials. It contains a partioned component with an exact
          plan for its own construction, which guides the factory to build a copy of
          itself (including the plan) in the workspace and then release the copy into
          the amnion, where the copy does the same thing, until some termination code
          stops all the sea from being turned into salt or madly whisking broomsticks.

          Damien Broderick

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