resonance: from TOC
From Sipser, Theory of Computation, page 218:
1) Living things are machines2) Living things can self-reproduce
3) Machines cannot self-reproduce..."How can we resolve this paradox? The answer is simple: Statement 3 is incorrect. Making machines that reproduce themselves is possible. The Recursion theorem demonstrates how." - Sipser
My python example: child.py,
mom = """print 'mom = ""'+'"'+mom+'""'+'"'
print mom"""
print 'mom = ""'+'"'+mom+'""'+'"'
print mom
... Try ...
python < child.py | python | python | python
... child.py yields ...
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