My memory is evidently playing tricks with me. I could have sworn I heard about someone constructing a replicator maybe about a year or 2 ago, and that it was all over the internet. But now when I try to look things up what I find agrees with you that no replicator has yet been constructed. Does anyone know what I might have been thinking of?
(Of course, now we’re discussing replicators, whereas the question was about imperfect replicators, but that falls much under the same boat—definitely possible, almost certainly not yet constructed.)
Related noob question:
Are there patterns in Life than can reproduce themselves reliably but imperfectly? (i.e. does life exist in Life?)
Do we actually have an example of such a pattern? (That was what I meant my question to be)
No—just the proof. Recentish progress here.
EDIT: Disregard this comment. I found what I was thinking of and it isn’t in any way a replicator. It was this: http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Gemini
My memory is evidently playing tricks with me. I could have sworn I heard about someone constructing a replicator maybe about a year or 2 ago, and that it was all over the internet. But now when I try to look things up what I find agrees with you that no replicator has yet been constructed. Does anyone know what I might have been thinking of?
(Of course, now we’re discussing replicators, whereas the question was about imperfect replicators, but that falls much under the same boat—definitely possible, almost certainly not yet constructed.)
Is this what you were thinking of?
I already posted it above but that’s the same thing, yes.
Ah, the problem seems to be bad summaries by the popular articles.