A Self-Replicating Universal Turing Machine: From von Neumann's Dream to New Embryonic Circuits

Table of Contents

Summary

Motivations

A specialized Turing machine

Universal Turing machine (UTM)

UTM: Towards a cellular implementation

UTM: Ideal cellular implementation

UTM: Actual cellular implementation

The Mictree artificial cell

Conclusions

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