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replicator
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n. Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a
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living organism, an idea (see meme ), a program (see quine , worm , wabbit ,
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fork bomb , and virus ), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life , sense
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1), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that
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Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator;
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see Unix conspiracy.
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