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Re:First replicating creature spawned in life simulator by jokermatt999 on Thursday June 17, 2010 @02:21PM (#1439871)
That reminds of Greg Egan's Permutation City. The latter half of the book focuses on intelligent simulations created from cellular automata, and the implications of such.
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Re:First replicating creature spawned in life simulator by Qz on Thursday June 17, 2010 @04:58PM (#1440321)
Greg Egan writes some seriously mindblowing stuff. Another good one to check out is Bios, which has quantum computing super DNA, that pre-emptively adapts to the environment by picking the best DNA from parallel universes.
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Re:First replicating creature spawned in life simulator by Jach on Thursday June 17, 2010 @05:42PM (#1440457)
I love that book, I was thinking about it too when I read this article.
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