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    environment, thus exhibiting self-replication in a way analogous to that found in nature. The concept of self-replicating machines has been advanced and examined...
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    replication Memetics Life Robot RepRap (self-replicated 3D printer) Self-replicating machine Self-replicating spacecraft Space manufacturing Von Neumann...
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  • and the only common trait is the self-replicating nature. A von Neumann probe is a spacecraft capable of replicating itself. It is a concatenation of...
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    John von Neumann's universal constructor is a self-replicating machine in a cellular automaton (CA) environment. It was designed in the 1940s, without...
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    theory and computer science literature are "self-replicating programs", "self-reproducing programs", and "self-copying programs". A quine is a fixed point...
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  • architecture IAS machine, a computer designed in the 1940s based on von Neumann's design Self-replicating machine, a class of machines that can replicate themselves...
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    sense. These include hypothetical machines that manipulate individual atoms and machines with organism-like self-replicating abilities, mobility, ability to...
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  • Gray goo (category Self-replicating machines)
    scenario involving molecular nanotechnology in which out-of-control self-replicating machines consume all biomass (and perhaps also everything else) on Earth...
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    the machina ex machina hypothesis. In Paley's self-replicating machine, it is imagined that the machine has a mechanical program and equipment to first...
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  • Self-replicating machines Replication (computing), the use of redundant resources to improve reliability, fault-tolerance, or performance Replication...
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