Self replication - Revision history

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	* [[Introduction of total positional control]]		* [[Introduction of total positional control]]
	* [[Self replicating box]]		* [[Self replicating box]]
	* [[reproduction hexagon]] - [[replication pentagon]] - [[copyfication square]]		* '''[[reproduction hexagon]]''' - '''[[replication pentagon]]''' - [[copyfication square]]
	* [[second assembly level self replication]]		* [[second assembly level self replication]]
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	* [https://www.tim-taylor.com/selfrepbook/ Rise of the Self-Replicators – Early Visions of Machines, AI and Robots That Can Reproduce and Evolve – by Tim Taylor and Alan Dorin]		* [https://www.tim-taylor.com/selfrepbook/ Rise of the Self-Replicators – Early Visions of Machines, AI and Robots That Can Reproduce and Evolve – by Tim Taylor and Alan Dorin]
	* [https://www.tim-taylor.com/selfrepbook/web/index.html Same book– direct link to online reading.]		* [https://www.tim-taylor.com/selfrepbook/web/index.html Same book– direct link to online reading.]
			Some of these physical demo objects of Lionel Penrose seem to be in the storage of Technical museum in Blythe House (London). <br>
			As from a blog post by Prof Jon Agar (UCL) here: [https://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/sts-observatory/2021/07/26/1-2-idea-no-2-lionel-penrose-and-object-historiography-experiment/ (science history research context)].

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	* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VeTRH_fHxI Fraser Cain pitches Self-Replicating Robots] (2014-07-23)		* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VeTRH_fHxI Fraser Cain pitches Self-Replicating Robots] (2014-07-23)
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			'''[[The Bunny Book]]'''
			* Readable online here: [http://www.molecularassembler.com/KSRM.htm KSRM on www.molecularassembler.com]
			* Archived here: [https://archive.org/details/kinematic-self-replicating Kinematic Self Replicating Machines – by Robert Freitas Jr and Ralph Merkle (via internet archive)]

			== More theoretic ==

			'''Very old hands on demonstration work by Lionel Penrose:'''
			* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12HfFvjSAHc Automatic Mechanical Self Replication (Part 1), Lionel Penrose, 1958]
			* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQ6T_TY3JA4&t=518s Automatic Mechanical Self Replication (Part 2), Lionel Penrose, 1961]
			* [https://www.tim-taylor.com/selfrepbook/ Rise of the Self-Replicators – Early Visions of Machines, AI and Robots That Can Reproduce and Evolve – by Tim Taylor and Alan Dorin]
			* [https://www.tim-taylor.com/selfrepbook/web/index.html Same book– direct link to online reading.]

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	* [[Bootstrapping methods for productive nanosystems]]		* '''[[Bootstrapping methods for productive nanosystems]]'''
	* [[Introduction of total positional control]]		* [[Introduction of total positional control]]
	* [[Self replicating box]]		* [[Self replicating box]]

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			* [[Advanced productive nanosystem]]s will be self replicative. <br>E.g. [[Gemstone metamaterial on chip factories]]
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			[[Molecular assembler]]s are supposed to be self-replicative in a very compact package (analogous to a living single celled organism).<br>
			There are two contexts for them:
			* [[Molecular assemblers as advanced productive nanosystem (outdated)]]
			* [[Proto-assembler]]

	= External links =		= External links =

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	* [[reproduction hexagon]] - [[replication pentagon]] - [[copyfication square]]		* [[reproduction hexagon]] - [[replication pentagon]] - [[copyfication square]]
	* [[second assembly level self replication]]		* [[second assembly level self replication]]
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			* [[RepRec pick and place robots]]

	= External links =		= External links =

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	* Compact self replication with individual atoms as base material (the pure breed [[direct path]]) is obsolete.		* Compact self replication with individual atoms as base material (the pure breed [[direct path]]) is obsolete.
	* Compact self replication with blocks of simple geometry self assembled from some foldamers as base material might or might not be involved in bootstrapping via the [[incremental path]].		* Compact self replication with blocks of simple geometry self assembled from some foldamers as base material might or might not be involved in bootstrapping via the [[incremental path]].
	* Compact self replication with [[crystolecule]]s as base material will very likely be simple to implement due to its simplicity. Not for bootstrapping though rather as experimental product of advanced nanofactories. Note that the underlying stage where the [[crystolecule]]s (which here are the "vitamins") are mechanosynthesized, is not so compact. At the [[crystolecule]] level (or even [[microcomponent]] level) assembly is done in a freely programmable general purpose way anyway. preproduced vitamin based self replication at the nano and microscale poses much less efficiency loss and a little less capability loss than the massive losses a [[molecular assembler]] working with individual atoms would have.		* Compact self replication with [[crystolecule]]s as base material will very likely be simple to implement due to its simplicity. Not for bootstrapping though rather as experimental product of advanced nanofactories. Note that the underlying stage where the [[crystolecule]]s (which here are the "vitamins") are mechanosynthesized, is not so compact. At the [[crystolecule]] level (or even [[microcomponent]] level) assembly is done in a freely programmable general purpose way anyway. preproduced vitamin based self replication at the nano and microscale poses much less efficiency loss and a little less capability loss than the massive losses a [[molecular assembler]] working with individual atoms would have. <br> '''See: [[Second assembly level self replication]]'''

	== Block based self replication ==		== Block based self replication ==

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	* [[Self replicating box]]		* [[Self replicating box]]
	* [[reproduction hexagon]] - [[replication pentagon]] - [[copyfication square]]		* [[reproduction hexagon]] - [[replication pentagon]] - [[copyfication square]]
			* [[second assembly level self replication]]

	= External links =		= External links =

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	* [[Introduction of total positional control]]		* [[Introduction of total positional control]]
	* [[Self replicating box]]		* [[Self replicating box]]
			* [[reproduction hexagon]] - [[replication pentagon]] - [[copyfication square]]

	= External links =		= External links =

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	'''A possible definition of self replication in a very broad and weak sense:'''<br>		'''A possible definition of self replication in a very broad and weak sense:'''<br>
	The assembly of assemblers that assemble identically copied assemblers out of a set of base parts (sometimes called vitamins) that is equal or greater in number than two.		* The assembly of assemblers that assemble identically copied assemblers out of a set of base parts (sometimes called vitamins) that is equal or greater in number than two.
			* Actuation by external means is acceptable. That is: Replicators don't need to be capable of moving by themselves.

	This definition is so weak that even a simple pair of pliers that can be used to put together another one out of two parts could be considered self replicating.		This definition is so weak that even a simple pair of pliers that can be used <br>
			to put together another one out of two parts together could be considered self replicating.

	~~Since~~ '''replicator mobility''' is not a requirement here [[exponential assembly]] falls under self replication in this broad sense.		Also, since '''replicator mobility''' is not a requirement here, <br>
			simple [[exponential assembly]] also falls under self replication in this broad "weak self replication" sense.

	== Strong self replication ==		== Strong self replication ==

Self replication - Revision history

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