I would argue that a self-replicating machine could be a slight modification of this idea. Print some blocks and put them in a container and shake them. Then co

I would argue that a self-replicating machine could be a slight modification of this idea. Print some blocks and put them in a container and shake them. Then come up with some structure, made up of these blocks, that will cause a copy of itself to emerge when shaking, that would have never or extremely rarely occurred if the parent structure had not been present.