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reply posted on 29-2-2012 @ 07:48 PM by Noncompatible
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Yes I have. It however does not cover all the variables. Self replication outside of a gravity well for one.
Small simple and numerous versus large and complex, the list can go on quite a ways.

Better to say that we are unaware of any Von Neumann machines/probes, than attribute the label of paradox to a question for which we don't yet have the tools to supply all the answers.


reply posted on 29-2-2012 @ 09:21 PM by stereologist
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I believe I read about this maybe 40 years ago. I was guessing at the name.

So this is a Von Neumann idea?


reply posted on 29-2-2012 @ 09:53 PM by Noncompatible
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Well to be accurate later theorists took his ideas of "Universal Assemblers" and applied it to the problem but the name Von Neumann probes kinda stuck.

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