AMA | September 2024

3555.4 - 3583.206 Sean Carroll

It's an entirely different kind of thing. It's trying to ask, does computation and replication, do computation and replication naturally emerge from random initial conditions in certain kinds of circumstances? So of course, yes, this programming language does allow for copy as an instruction, but it doesn't copy, it doesn't naturally copy the whole program, and that's what you're looking for. So