Copyfication square

The four sides of the immobile self-replication square

There are four necessary requirements on selfreplicativity for a gemstone metamaterial on-chip factory.

Needed are:

• replication capability
• building block availability
• energy supply
• blueprint data mobility (a mere digital access to a central copy is sufficient, some redundancy is advisable though for resiliency)

Not needed are:

• replicator mobility -- needed for the (outdated) molecular assembler concept
• sufficient adaptivity -- needed only by biological life

Blueprint data mobility

A note on "blueprint data mobility":
The biological example of DNA with a full nanomechanically encoded datastorage copy in
every single cell is ridiculously inefficient and nothing we would want to mimic in artificial systems for manufacturing.

Related

• reproduction hexagon - replication pentagon - immobile replication square
• self replication