I believe a Replicator is a nanohardware based version of the same
thing that is called "outlook" later in the book, something that
imposes on the mind of the target a fixed worldview that cannot be
changed. There is the same thing, though not called replicator, in
other Egan books e.g. Quatantine.
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:53:32 -0800, hal@finney.org wrote:
>I was re-reading Greg Egan's fascinating novel Diaspora, which is about
>the response of an uploaded future humanity to a major galactic threat.
>Early in the novel two of the characters, Yatima and Inoshiro, transfer
>themselves into robot bodies and go to visit a colony of "fleshers",
>non-uploaded humans. Walking through the jungle they stumble across
>an empty canister of "Replicator", which they view as dangerous and
>threatening. But I can't figure out what this stuff is. It doesn't
>seem to match any of the dangerous future materials we have discussed.
>Here is the description:
--- G.P. gdotpdot@newsguy.com
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