Self-Replicating System
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A Self-Replicating System is a dynamical system that can solve a self-replication task (to create an identical copy of itself).
- Example(s):
- a Self-Replicating Biological System, such as living system (with biological reproduction).
- a Self-Replicating Machine.
- a Cellular System.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- See: Reproduction, Evolution, 3D Printer, Natural Selection, Viral Replication, Prion, Computer Virus.
References
2023
- (Wikipedia, 2023) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replication Retrieved:2023-7-16.
- Self-replication is any behavior of a dynamical system that yields construction of an identical or similar copy of itself. Biological cells, given suitable environments, reproduce by cell division. During cell division, DNA is replicated and can be transmitted to offspring during reproduction. Biological viruses can replicate, but only by commandeering the reproductive machinery of cells through a process of infection. Harmful prion proteins can replicate by converting normal proteins into rogue forms. Computer viruses reproduce using the hardware and software already present on computers. Self-replication in robotics has been an area of research and a subject of interest in science fiction. Any self-replicating mechanism which does not make a perfect copy (mutation) will experience genetic variation and will create variants of itself. These variants will be subject to natural selection, since some will be better at surviving in their current environment than others and will out-breed them.
2016
- (Wikipedia, 2016) ⇒ http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-replication Retrieved:2016-2-22.
- Self-replication is any behavior of a dynamical system that yields construction of an identical copy of itself. Biological cells, given suitable environments, reproduce by cell division. ...