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A comment on Grey goo.

Re:Grey goo by michaelfairley on Sunday May 23, 2010 @08:30PM (#1373441)
Self-replicating machines of the macroscopic variety were originally described by mathematician John von Neumann, and are sometimes referred to as von Neumann machines.

I suppose their memory holds both code and data?

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Re:Grey goo by JeanPierre on Sunday May 23, 2010 @09:28PM (#1373534)
Well, von Neumann was John McCarthy's menthor, and McCarthy made LISP. There's no wonder why programming code (e.g. functions) in LISP is data, and why LISP is heavily used in AI.
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