[Dimensio]

Not only does your example not create an imperfect replication of the original, but anyone who had a shred of intellectual honesty would know that I was referring to self-replication, not forced replication initiated by an outside agent.

Or do you believe that every instance of an organism reproducing is a result of God typing a command into His console?

[bvw]

Word 6.0 is an imperfect copy of Word 5.5. And yes, any sysop can write a script that causes a system to self-replicate, and even do so with variants -- say to handle the differences between a teacher's workstation and that of a students.