These self-reproducing patterns can be thought of as artificial primitive life forms. Each loop is a wire around which signals propagate. These signals are instructions for growing a child wire loop. Once a child loop has been grown, the signals from the parent loop are copied into it and it is then detached from the parent. The child then becomes a parent by growing its own children.
Wires have a finite lifetime, after which they decay into nothing.
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