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Von Neumann Probe
A Von Neumann Machine able to move over interstellar or interplanetary distances and to utilize local materials to build new copies of itself. Such probes could be used to set up new colonies, perform megascale engineering or explore the universe (see the Far Edge Party).
 
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Development Notes
Text by Anders Sandberg in his Transhuman Terminology
Initially published on 12 December 2001.

 
 
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