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[extropy-chat] Self replicating computer programs ?</FONT><BR>
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<TD width="100%"><BR><FONT class=metatype>Author: </FONT><A
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<BLOCKQUOTE><FONT class=messagebody><BR><BR>----- Original Message
-----<BR>From: "Brett Paatsch" <<A
href="mailto:bpaatsch@bigpond.net.au">bpaatsch@bigpond.net.au</A>><BR>Sent:
Thursday, November 13, 2003 7:09 PM<BR><I>><BR>> When I see
words like self in self-replicating I know that there<BR>> are
substantive discussions taking place as to what "self" maps<BR>> to
cognitively even in people. The pattern-identity question is<BR>>
not satisfactorily resolved yet for me.<BR></I><BR>No need to get into
all this anxious twistiness. To shift away from computer<BR>programs
and get more ambitious: A self-replicating assembler just uses
the<BR>design mapped decades ago by von Neumann. A little replicator
factory swims<BR>in a soup of raw materials. It contains a partioned
component with an exact<BR>plan for its own construction, which guides
the factory to build a copy of<BR>itself (including the plan) in the
workspace and then release the copy into<BR>the amnion, where the copy
does the same thing, until some termination code<BR>stops all the sea
from being turned into salt or madly whisking
broomsticks.<BR><BR>Damien
Broderick<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>extropy-chat
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