Activity
Tyler Mills started a discussion titled ‘Is Self-Replication Required for the Growth of Knowledge? ’. The discussion starts with idea #4040.
Either in biological evolution, or the evolution of ideas (programs) in a mind, is a mechanism for self-replication required for knowledge to grow? That is, do entities within the system need to be able to recreate themselves, or cause themselves to be recreated, for there to be progress? Why?
What is the distinction between replication and self-replication? Does anything "truly" self-replicate?