Cells can almost certainly perform that function but by calling them 'von Neumann probes' are you suggesting intelligent design?
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It is likely that cells are the easiest way to bootstrap intelligence from scratch.
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I feel like viruses and RNA are even more basic forms of computronium than single cells
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They are unsustainable without cells. A virus is just a software payload with a deployment device.
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Discover a yet simpler computronium.
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certain types of fungal spores and bacterial cysts are probably capable of surviving a vacuum and probably light enough to survive atmospheric reentry by drifting down very very slowly
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Obvious if your read the hitchhiker
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this is th great philosophical challenge! r there more forms of this computronium! unless we find such, i believe there can be no science of life. im betting there ARE other forms. we HAVE found other forms of v. neumans original sketch and many turing equivelent constructs
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i really shld be working on this. perhaps in a few years
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