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From: jco@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Joao Oliveira)
Subject: Re: Reproduction
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Keith Wiley (keithw@wam.umd.edu) wrote:
: You are obviously not aquainted with Tierra, which is only the most 
: obvious example of truly reproducing computer code.  The tendency of 
: tierra organisms to replicate within a computer's memory is an inate in 
: the physics of the situation as of a human reproducing.  There is no 
: "reproduce" function.  Tierran organisms don't suddenly enter the "copy" 
: phase and run the sub-routine for copying code.  It is inherant in their 
: genetic structure that they will, indeed, copy their code throughout a 
: computer's memory.  So, basically, you are totally wrong.
:  

	I might be wrong but isn't the Tierra system loaded with the small
computer program the author could compute that reproduced itself? I believe
so far he is totally right as someone (God :-)) computed the first animat.

joao
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