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* Clanking replicators are also mentioned briefly in the fourth chapter of K. Eric Drexler's 1986 book Engines of Creation.
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Fully capable machine replicators are most useful for developing resources in dangerous environments which are not easily reached by existing transportation systems ( such as outer space ).
Similar ideas are advocated in the Foresight Guidelines on Molecular Nanotechnology, and a map of the 137-dimensional replicator design space recently published by Freitas and Merkle provides numerous proposed methods by which replicators could, in principle, be safely controlled by good design.
Internalists countered with various arguments: that brain states will eventually be directly observable with advanced technology, that most cultural anthropologists agree that culture is about beliefs and not artifacts, or that artifacts cannot be replicators in the same sense as mental entities ( or DNA ) are replicators.
These are all of the ways it affects the world, not just the effects the replicators have on the body in which they reside.
As one minion of the Dominion in the Star Trek: DS9 episode, " Rocks and Shoals " notes, Starfleet engineers are reputed to be able to " Turn rocks into replicators.
In general, since these systems are autotrophic, they are the most difficult and complex known replicators.
Today, Dawkins postulates, the replicators are the genes within organisms, with each organism's body serving the purpose of a ' survival machine ' for its genes.
At the end of ten hours, there are not thirty-six new replicators, but over 68 billion.
Sons are grown in and birthed from uterine replicators ( artificial wombs ) at one of 9, soon to be 10, Reproduction Centers around the planet.
Bombers are often combined with imp spirals ( see below ) to gain extra resiliency against replicators.
Most modern replicators are of this type.
However, in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, industrial replicators are used to replicate large components of ships, shuttlecraft, and other pieces of this sort, which are later used in shipyards to construct such vessels.
In this manner, as few as 15 industrial replicators are enough to replicate the components needed to build a fleet of starships or to help a civilization recover from a planet-wide natural disaster.
Genes are " replicators " whereas individuals and groups of individuals are " vehicles ".
Dawkins argues that, although they are both aspects of the same process, " replicators " rather than " vehicles " should be preferred as units of selection.
Genes are replicators and therefore the gene is the unit of selection.
Port replicators ( also called passthroughs ) are functionally and logically identical to a bundle of extension cables, except that they are plugged in and unplugged together through the docking port.
* In Lois McMaster Bujold's Vorkosigan Saga, artificial uteri, called uterine replicators are widely used, and body births are considerably out of favor on most technologically advanced worlds, to the extent that Miles Vorkosigan disgusts some Cetagandan women by mentioning that his cousin Ivan was born from his mother's body.
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This makes it more effective against hard-to-kill opponents like replicators, but also leaves it vulnerable to decoys.
However they also were able to link up all other replicators in the area.
He also determines that the virus is in the food that had come from command level replicators, but that the other replicators aren't producing contaminated food.
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* Macroscopic replicators are mentioned briefly in the fourth chapter of K. Eric Drexler's 1986 book Engines of Creation.
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Szabo wrote that this approach was easier than previous proposals for macroscale replicators, but successfully predicted that even this method would not lead to a macroscale replicator within ten years.
As the use of industrial automation has expanded over time, some factories have begun to approach a semblance of self-sufficiency that is suggestive of clanking replicators.
He hypothesised that one could view many cultural entities as replicators, and pointed to melodies, fashions and learned skills as examples.
These replicators respond to selective pressures that may or may not affect biological reproduction or survival.
Furthermore, by adding Hebbian learning to neuronal replicators the power of neuronal evolutionary computation may actually be greater than natural selection in organisms.
The smallest unit of replicators is the gene.
Stop the replicators.
The distinctive regional ethos of the West during the first half of the 20th century is an ingredient of Silicon Valley's already prepared environment, an ingredient that would-be replicators ignore at their peril.
Recent research has begun to categorize replicators, often based on the amount of support they require.
* Natural replicators have all or most of their design from nonhuman sources.
It is conjectured that non-biological autotrophic replicators could be designed by humans, and could easily accept specifications for human products.
The design space for machine replicators is very broad.
The guidelines recommend that researchers use several specific techniques for preventing mechanical replicators from getting out of control, such as using a broadcast architecture.
* Biology studies natural replication and replicators, and their interaction.
A classic theoretical study of replicators in space is the 1980 NASA study of autotrophic clanking replicators, edited by Robert Freitas.
One difference from current virtual reality technology, however, was that replicators, force fields, holograms, and transporters were used to actually recreate and place objects in the holodeck, rather than illusions.
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For instance, humanity finally gaining power over the " selfish replicators " is a major theme at the end of the book.
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All the drivers knew about the plates and they also knew about the big floppy straw hat with shredded edges, the kind natives in travel ads wear when they are out joyfully chopping cane.
I think that we are here also talking of the kind of fear that a young boy has for a group of boys who are approaching at night along the streets of a large city.
By `` image '' is meant not only a visual presentation, but also remembered sensations of any of the five senses plus the feelings which are immediately conjoined therewith.
it is true that they are also extremely dull.
The networks for military communications are one of the best examples of networks which not only must be changed with the changes in objectives but also must be changed with the addition of new machines of war.
We are also struck by the fact that this story of a boy's love for his mother does not offend, while the incestuous love of the man, Paul Morel, sometimes repels.
He and also Mr. Cowley and Mr. Warren have fallen to the temptation which besets many of us to read into our authors -- Nathaniel Hawthorne, for example, and Herman Melville -- protests against modernism, material progress, and science which are genuine protests of our own but may not have been theirs.
On December 21, the day that the Irish House of Commons petitioned for removal of Sir Constantine Phipps, their Tory Lord Chancellor, Molesworth reportedly made this remark on the defense of Phipps by Convocation: `` They that have turned the world upside down, are come hither also ''.
Among measures in anticipation of crisis are plans to inject into the turmoil as assistants of key decision makers qualified persons who are cognizant of the corrosive effect of crisis upon personal relationships and are also able to raise calm and realistic voices when overburdened leaders near the limit of self-control.
Very likely it will also include a recognition that the work we are reading reflects or `` belongs to '' some way of thought labelled as a `` school '' or an `` -ism '', i.e. a complex or `` syndrome '' of ideas occurring together with sufficient prominence to warrant identification.
Greek boys and girls also go for rock-and-roll, and the stations most tuned to are those carrying United States overseas programs.
They both measure literature by moral standards, and in their political writings both allow for censorship, but the differences between them are also significant.
We may further grant to those of her ( Poetry's ) defenders who are lovers of poetry and yet not poets, the permission to speak in prose on her behalf: let them show not only that she is pleasant but also useful to States and to human life, and we will listen in a kindly spirit ; ;
Occupational choices are also useful -- and interesting -- in bringing out clearly that values do not constitute the only component in goals and aspirations.
The students who are most willing to acquiesce in the suppression of civil liberties are also those who are most likely to be prejudiced against minority groups, to be conformist and traditionalistic in general social attitudes, and to lack a basic faith in people.
This finding is consistent also with the fact that student leaders are more likely to be supporters of the values implicit in civil liberties than the other students.
In this sense also, they are surely conformists.
Of course I hope Hal can also, but those hopes are much more faint ''.
The novel, which is not merely dystopian but also brilliantly satiric, describes a future America where one-sixteenth of the population, the men who run advertising agencies and big corporations, control the rest of the people, the submerged fifteen-sixteenths who are the workers and consumers, with the government being no more than `` a clearing house for pressures ''.
But I will also remind them that I have always been inclined to skepticism, to a kind of Laodicean lack of commitment so far as public affairs are concerned ; ;
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