replicator
Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living
organism, an idea (see meme), a program (see quine, worm, wabbit, fork bomb, and
virus), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life), or (speculatively) a robot
or nanobot. It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves
of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy.
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