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Comment author: Stingray 17 November 2015 10:19:42PM 1 point [-]

Are there any science fiction novels that take this approach?

Comment author: philh 18 November 2015 10:22:01AM 3 points [-]

The characters in Greg Egan's Diaspora are mostly sentient software, who send out several probes containing copies of themselves.