You're using Von Neumann machine in the sense of a self-replicating machine. I think the commenter you're replying to meant Von Neumann architecture, which is t

You're using Von Neumann machine in the sense of a self-replicating machine. I think the commenter you're replying to meant Von Neumann architecture, which is the basic layout of a computer, and has nothing to do with self-replication. See this Wikipedia disambiguation page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_machine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_machine