Self Replicating Computer Programs

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author here! very interested to find out if anyone has any comments or questions or objections. going to start writing the next article shortly

Is this at all related to "Robust-first computing"? I first heard about it from this video[0]? He calls it a "movable feast machine".

What interested me about cellular automation is that in my reading of Neumann, it is said he was working on using cellular automata to construct fully replicating machines. It is also said he probably would have gone on to develop said architecture in full had he not died. Is your research in anyway related?

I'm interested but woefully lacking in formal cs training.

[0]https://youtu.be/helScS3coAE

my life's work is the continuation of von neumann's research on self reproducing machines. I just had a major breakthrough after 15 years and am just free writing a massive series of articles right now

i watched that video briefly and skipped around, it looked like it was based on cellular automata? I have never heard of this specific application, but am aware this type of application is possible for them. Cellular automata were used by John Conway in the game of life, and I have studied this subject pretty deeply and this is a major source of inspiration for what I am doing now

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