[[File:Index.png|thumb]]'''Bike''' (びけ ''Bike''), '''Bike-chan''' is a toy dog owned by [[Iwakura Lain]] that is unsuccessfully automated by her an unknown number of times. It appears in the [[The Nightmare of Fabrication|manga]] and the [[game]]. Lain has reportedly owned it since birth, although there is no way of knowing how many incarnations it has had.
In [[Layer 07]], there is a scene where lain is in class, surreptitiously working on her [[HandiNAVI]] instead of paying attention. For a few seconds, her NAVI screen is visible, and we can see her rapidly scroll through two files of Common Lisp source code, named CRowView.CL and Afx-n-nPrv-View.CL.
==Trivia==
Afx-n-nPrv-View.CL is the source for a code walker. This was probably included for its tongue-in-cheek reference to [[Apple Inc. references | Apple]] in a section of code that is commented out. The full file can be found [http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/lang/lisp/code/codewalk/walk/new_walk.cl here.]
A stuffed toy dog closely resembling Bike-chan appears in the [[anime]]; it is dropped at Lain's feet by a young girl in [[Shibuya]].
CRowView.CL contains code for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life John Conway's Game of Life.] The creators probably selected this code because of its seemingly [[God|omnipotent]] implications, i.e. creating worlds and life. The full file can be found [http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/lang/lisp/code/fun/life.cl here.]
Other coincidental links between CGoL and Lain include the fact that the recently established [http://www.catb.org/hacker-emblem/ Hacker Emblem] was inspired by the Game of Life, and Lain can be described as a hacker; and that CGoL also inspired the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poietic_Generator Poietic Generator,] while Lain [[Give some examples of cybernetic systems at play in specific visual texts. What metaphors of the body in contemporary society do they suggest? And to what commodity end are they marketed?|has been described as an autopoietic entity]].
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Bike (びけ Bike), Bike-chan is a toy dog owned by Iwakura Lain that is unsuccessfully automated by her an unknown number of times. It appears in the manga and the game. Lain has reportedly owned it since birth, although there is no way of knowing how many incarnations it has had.
Trivia
A stuffed toy dog closely resembling Bike-chan appears in the anime; it is dropped at Lain's feet by a young girl in Shibuya.
