A visual quine: a chemical you make just by looking at it

https://arbesman.substack.com/p/a-visual-quine

by arbesman • 4 years ago

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thanatos519• 4 years ago

I <3 this idea.

GabrieleR• 4 years ago

Acoustic quine? Polibius effect

GuB-42• 4 years ago

By doing some generally regarded as pleasant activity with people, you make people.

Life is the original quine.

gpcr1949• 4 years ago

Of course, it's somewhat disappointing that any molecule you look at will result in isomerization of cis-retinal to trans-retinal - including a picture of the consumed cis-retinal.

Another interesting example where molecules will produce themselves is chiral amplification with autocatalysis. This article is fairly technical, but a nice example of a reaction product being a catalyst for its own (chiral!) formation: https://sci-hub.se/10.1021/ar9900820

lupire• 4 years ago

Cute, but not a quine. A quine copies itself, not its input. That's a huge difference.

woojoo666• 4 years ago

Not sure if this is a quine. A quine would be like if it generated the entire visual receptors themselves. Instead this is more like the "echo" command on linux, printing out only the input

A visual quine: a chemical you make just by looking at it

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