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positioned on a collision course, will destroy the glider. The
killer is on a suicide mission; no trace whatsoever remains after
the collision (thus it looks more like kamikaze).
The reader who is wondering why the Game was labelled
“of Life” might note the undeniable and almost disturbing
assonances with “Life” in the popping up of “cellular” seeds,
and the one-in-billions random sequence of atoms that, hit by a
spark, happens to learn duplication.
1.37 Memory Is I n the Numbers
B-cells, when primed like the one described above, expand as
clones, while thousands of similar cells do not, and die. These
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