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Any construct that acts to produce copies of itself; this could be a living organism, an idea (see meme ), a program (see quine , worm , wabbit , fork bomb , and virus ), a pattern in a cellular automaton (see life , sense 1), or (speculatively) a robot or nanobot . It is even claimed by some that Unix and C are the symbiotic halves of an extremely successful replicator; see Unix conspiracy .