// --- Terminators --- //

 **Von Neumann's universal constructor**
    - A self-replicating machine in a cellular automaton environment. 
    - Consists of three parts: a description of itself, a univsersal constructor mechanism, and a universal copy machine. 
    - Can evolve by accumulative mutations of the description, not the machine itself. 
    - Proved that self-replicating spacecraft are the most effective way of performing large-scale mining operations. 
- **Research and development (R&D)**
    - The set of innovative activities undertaken by corporations or governments in developing new services or products, and improving existing ones. 
    - Often the first stage in the development process. Requires knowledge, talent, and investment. 
    - Can be either basic or applied, a distinction that was established in the first half of the 20th century. 
    - Allows a company to stay ahead of its competition by catering to new wants or needs in the market. May also allow companies to secure intellectual property. 
    - Undertaken by companies across all sectors and industries. Pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, and software/technology companies tend to spend the most on R&D. 
- **Neural networks**
    - Computing systems with interconnected nodes that work much like neurons in the human brain. 
    - A subset of machine learning and are at the heart of deep learning algorithms. 
    - A simple neural network includes an input layer, an output (or target) layer and, in between, a hidden layer. The layers are connected via nodes. 
    - Can be used for solving various artificial intelligence problems, such as speech recognition, image analysis, natural language processing, computer vision, and adaptive control.  
    - Can also model complex and nonlinear relationships between inputs and outputs, or find patterns in data.  
- **The laws of robotics**
    - A set of rules devised by science fiction author Isaac Asimov, which were to be followed by robots in several of his stories. 
    - Introduced in his 1942 short story "Runaround" (included in the 1950 collection I, Robot), although similar restrictions had been implied in earlier stories. 
    - The laws are: First Law: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; Second Law: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; Third Law: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection8 z. does not conflict with the First or Second Law; Zeroth Law: A robot may not injure humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
    

Terminators should be made of 3 simple parts much resembling a Von Neumann Universal Constructor.

In the first part is the factory this is very simple to the universal copy machine in that it is
used in conjunction with the description to make copy's of the entire "machine". The Factory contains
the required machines to construct bots and hosinng for the bots. The bots are responsable for constructing
the rest of "The Machine". The second part is the research and developmet department, R&D for short.
The R&D department is responnsable for research analysis and contains the neural network used as
Artificial Intelegence. The AI in the R&D department anylizes data collected by the bots about the
environment, human nature, etc (anything that makes them better termminators) and uses it's findings to
edit the third part which is the description. The discription is very much the same as the one in a 
Von-Neuman's Universl Constructor, except the R&D department doent alter the description like you'd
think it would. Not only does the r&d department keep  description it also keeps a parts list. 
The parts list is kept as set of schematics within the AI's Neural network allowing for complex context 
and details to be a part of the description via reference to part schematics the AI keeps.
The decription os then formatted with the following command " [part type] [x] [y] [z] [part meta data]". 
Since the part may be a simple part like a chip that desnt come pre-programmed, a machione with 
custom firmware, or even a compartment with a special lock code, each instruction in the description
also includes a place for some meta data that is related to making the part unique. this allows us to make 
complex varients of standard parts and saves space in our AI's neural netowrks