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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan Isaiah Kamens)
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Subject: Re: self-replication
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Date: 10 Jan 88 05:17:21 GMT
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If you want to get a [somewhat fanciful] look at the way von Neumann
machines work, you might want to take a look at a book of short
stories [Science Fiction] by David Brin.  Unfortunately, I can
remember neither the name of the book nor the name of the story, but I
think that Brin has only published one book of stories, so if you can
go to a good SF library and look under Brin, you will find it.

The story is about interstellar probes which replicate using the von
Neumann scheme.  It really is very interesting.

 -=> Jonathan I. Kamens | "There is no expedient to which man will not go
     MIT '91            |  to avoid the real labor of thought."
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