OTHER LIFE. “Other examples of “fundamentally different” organizations include those without spatially localized individuals, hierarchical organization, genotype-phenotype distinction, or, indeed, any symbolic representation scheme. Macroscopic self-reproducing machines (robots), perhaps living in colonies and exploiting local resources to maintain themselves and grow, might give rise to a significantly different set of organizational possibilities and constraints.”
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