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Re:Neural Network Quine by TeMPOraL on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @02:50AM (#16636058)
Oh, but it does, if you treat "assembling a copy of yourself from atoms in the environment" as equivalent to the implementation details of printing to standard output.
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Re:Neural Network Quine by mjburgess on Sunday March 25, 2018 @03:11AM (#16671136)
> causal property

"assembling a copy of yourself" is a description you are imposing on a series of events.

The events in the case of a digital computer are certain oscillations to the electric field. That shares nothing with the chemical assembly of biological material

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