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Is VonNeumann's universal constructor ontologically distinct from the universal Turing machine?
I have recently been reading and watching Chiara's take on universal constructor theory. I knew about VonNeumann probes, as for instance described in Asimov's 2001 sequence. I hadn't taken in his constructor theory in a cellular automaton…
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